Students know our public school system is broken. Schools are more segregated than they were 30 years ago, they are poorly funded, and they try to test their way to success. It is time to reinvest in our public schools. @ewarren has a plan for that and we break it down here👇🏽 
FUND SCHOOLS EQUITABLY (1/2)
💵 Invest $450 billion in Title I funds for high poverty schools
👨🏿🏫 Work with public education leaders to ensure funds are equitably distributed
🏫 Condition extra Title I funds on states funding struggling schools more
💵 Invest $450 billion in Title I funds for high poverty schools
👨🏿🏫 Work with public education leaders to ensure funds are equitably distributed
🏫 Condition extra Title I funds on states funding struggling schools more
FUND SCHOOLS EQUITABLY (1/2)
💵 Invest $20 billion for educating students with disabilities
💵 Invest $100 billion for schools to develop programs and resources for students
💵 Invest $50 billion in school infrastructure
💵 Invest $20 billion for educating students with disabilities
💵 Invest $100 billion for schools to develop programs and resources for students
💵 Invest $50 billion in school infrastructure
FIGHT SEGREGATION (1/2)
🏘️ Encourage states to use Title I funds for integration
⚖️ Expand Title VI to allow individuals to sue states and school districts that perpetuate school segregation
🏛️ Revive and fund the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights
🏘️ Encourage states to use Title I funds for integration
⚖️ Expand Title VI to allow individuals to sue states and school districts that perpetuate school segregation
🏛️ Revive and fund the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights
FIGHT SEGREGATION (1/2)
🔎 Scrutinize attempts to “breakaway” from existing districts closely
🖥️ Improve federal data collection on civil rights in education
♿ Enforce the rights of students with disabilities, LGBTQ+ students, and English Language Learners
🔎 Scrutinize attempts to “breakaway” from existing districts closely
🖥️ Improve federal data collection on civil rights in education
♿ Enforce the rights of students with disabilities, LGBTQ+ students, and English Language Learners
PROVIDE A NURTURING ENVIRONMENT (1/3)
🏘️ 25,000 new community schools by 2030
📝 Prohibit high-stakes testing in decision making
🍱 Ensure all students have free breakfast and lunch in school
👩🏾⚕️ Ensure every school has a mental health provider
🏘️ 25,000 new community schools by 2030
📝 Prohibit high-stakes testing in decision making
🍱 Ensure all students have free breakfast and lunch in school
👩🏾⚕️ Ensure every school has a mental health provider
PROVIDE A NURTURING ENVIRONMENT (2/3)
👮🏽 Ensure police officers in schools have proper training
✋🏼 End zero-tolerance discipline policies and enact restorative justice programs
🏗️ Establish a $25 billion fund for communities to construct School-Based Health Centers
👮🏽 Ensure police officers in schools have proper training
✋🏼 End zero-tolerance discipline policies and enact restorative justice programs
🏗️ Establish a $25 billion fund for communities to construct School-Based Health Centers
PROVIDE A NURTURING ENVIRONMENT (3/3)
👨🏿🏫 Expand use of culturally relevant curriculums
🎓 Provide better access to career and college readiness
🧒🏽 Decriminalize truancy and fund programs that actually reduce it
👨🏿🏫 Expand use of culturally relevant curriculums
🎓 Provide better access to career and college readiness
🧒🏽 Decriminalize truancy and fund programs that actually reduce it
TREAT TEACHERS AND STAFF FAIRLY
👩🏽🏫 Incentivize states to increase teacher pay
🖊️ Ensure teachers do not have to buy their own supplies
🗺️ Support teachers in high-need areas
👨🏾💼 Recruit diverse teachers and leaders
📖 Provide continuing education opportunities to all school staff
👩🏽🏫 Incentivize states to increase teacher pay
🖊️ Ensure teachers do not have to buy their own supplies
🗺️ Support teachers in high-need areas
👨🏾💼 Recruit diverse teachers and leaders
📖 Provide continuing education opportunities to all school staff
COMBAT PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS
🏫 Only allow school districts to authorize charter schools and empower them to reject unaccountable proposals
🔍 Increase oversight of charters
❌ End federal funding for new charters
❌ Ban for-profit charter schools
🏫 Only allow school districts to authorize charter schools and empower them to reject unaccountable proposals
🔍 Increase oversight of charters
❌ End federal funding for new charters
❌ Ban for-profit charter schools
COMBAT CORRUPTION OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS
📜 Require corporate lobbyists for school contracts to abide by federal lobbying rules
❌ Ban the share, storage, and sale of student data
🌐 Require high-stakes testing companies to make prior testing materials publicly available
📜 Require corporate lobbyists for school contracts to abide by federal lobbying rules
❌ Ban the share, storage, and sale of student data
🌐 Require high-stakes testing companies to make prior testing materials publicly available
We can build a world-class public school system. We just need a two-cent wealth tax to fund it and politicians willing to make it happen with #bigstructuralchange. Do you stand with Liz on fixing our broken education system? Read the full plan here: elizabethwarren.com/plans/public-e…
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