I am who I am today because of the decision my parents made to send me to Catholic school and get me a dishwashing job to pay for it.
One of my key missions when I get elected will be to make sure every parent in the U.S. gets to make the same critical decision about education for their kids that my parents did.
A zip code should not determine your status in life because you can’t find the right education for your kids.
The fact is, at a time we are spending record amounts on education, too many of our kids — hundreds of thousands of our most precious blessings, our kids — are trapped in underperforming schools. Hundreds of thousands of Moms and Dads don’t have the financial means to get them to a better option. The state government, the federal government, the local church or nonprofit — for whatever reason, they don’t have a plan or a fix or a path to a better school for these many, many children.
We will cut the bureaucracy and use those dollars to fund education savings accounts that fund tutoring. We will cut administrative waste to fund transportation services that can take students to a better school and to pay private school tuition for low-income kids in the poorest performing schools.
We need to be a nation focused on throwing the doors of opportunity wide open — regardless of race, regardless of nationality, regardless of gender, yes, regardless of zip code — so that each and every one of these children have the same opportunities as your children.
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