Thread by @MattMooshian

It’s been a while, so I figured I’d spotlight another one of my fav @ewarren plans: A GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION FOR EVERY STUDENT ✏️📚📓🍎

#WarrenHasAPlan #PublicSchoolMadeMe

1/16

It’s time to give our schools the support they need to ensure that every student has access to a meaningful, high-quality public education.

@ewarren’s plan makes a series of legislative and administrative changes to achieve 5️⃣ objectives:

2/16

1️⃣ FUNDING SCHOOLS ADEQUATELY AND EQUITABLY

State & local funds make up about 90% of total K-12 ed. funding. The federal gov’t provides roughly the remaining 10%, primarily through Title I — @ewarren’s plan starts by quadrupling Title I funding.

3/16

We need to do more than just increase funding. That’s why @ewarren is committed to working with public education leaders & school finance experts to improve the way the federal government allocates this new Title I funding.

I could make an entire thread about this but...

4/16

2️⃣ RENEWING THE FIGHT AGAINST SEGREGATION AND DISCRIMINATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

@ewarren’s plan would also use that federal education funding we talked about to encourage states to further integrate their schools.

5/16

As we know, incentives to integrate communities & schools will encourage many districts to do the right thing. But they won’t be sufficient everywhere. That’s why @ewarren is committed to strengthening Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

6/16

To wrap this portion up; the Warren administration will strictly enforce the right of students with disabilities to a free and appropriate public education, fight to protect the rights of LGBTQ+ students, & commit to protecting English Language Learners.

7/16

3️⃣ PROVIDING A WARM, SAFE, AND NURTURING SCHOOL CLIMATE FOR ALL OUR KIDS

Every student deserves the opportunity to learn in a traditional public school that’s welcoming and safe, and @ewarren has a bold plan to achieve just that. Here’s a few highlights:

8/16

- Expand access to early childhood services and education
- Eliminate high-stakes testing
- Cancel student breakfast and lunch debt and provide free and nutritious school meals
- Invest in evidenced-based school safety
- Establish more School-Based Health Centers

9/16

4️⃣ TREATING PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS AND STAFF LIKE THE PROFESSIONALS THEY ARE

Teachers, paraprofessionals, school staff, and school leaders are the foundation of our public education system.

10/16

.@ewarren’s plan to quadruple Title I funding incentivizes states to shift their funding formulas to better support students in critical ways, such as by increasing teacher pay with the goal of closing the educator pay gap and also paying paraprofessionals a living wage.

11/16

In @ewarren’s plan for Empowering American Workers, she pledges to enact the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act, which ensures that public employees like teachers can organize and bargain collectively in each state. Giving teachers more voice in their schools.

12/16

and finally, 5️⃣ COMBATING THE PRIVATIZATION AND CORRUPTION OF OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS

To keep our traditional public school systems strong, we must resist efforts to divert public funds out of traditional public schools.

13/16

.@ewarren supports the @NAACP’s recommendations to only allow school districts to serve as charter authorizers, and to empower school districts to reject applications that do not meet transparency and accountability standards.

14/16

As President, @ewarren would:
- eliminate this charter school program and end federal funding for the expansion of charter schools
- ban for-profit charter schools

15/16

There’s a lot here, and there’s a lot more I didn’t even get to! But you can read this plan and more for yourself👇🏻 and while you’re at it sign up to knock some doors or make some calls!

elizabethwarren.com/plans/public-e…

#DreamBigFightHard #WinWithWarren #Warren2020 #TeamWarren

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