Declared 2012
Libertarian Presidential Candidate
Former Chair of the Libertarian Party of Texas
Roger Gary
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Gary Position on Education
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Gary proposes that government should “use the food stamp model.” By allowing consumers to shop at the private level, rather than being given supplies by the government, it will benefit all. “Education is similar. Parents should be allowed to open enroll their child into the school of their choice. The market effects of competition will drive down cost while increasing quality meaning everyone wins.” Campaign Website
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Gingrich Position on Education
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• Gingrich believes that high schools are now obsolete. He would make schools and teachers compete to improve education.
• He thinks that we should focus on patriotic education instead of multiculturalism.
• He thinks education is the most important factor in our future prosperity and national security.
• He insists that failing schools must change and he supports charter schools. Gingrich would provide students at hopeless schools with private school scholarships.
• He wouldn't charge interest on student loans for science and math students.
• He would bring back school prayer with a Constitutional amendment and thinks that federal aid should go only to schools that allow voluntary
• Gingrich has said that high school girls who graduate as virgins should be rewarded.
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Declared 2012
Libertarian Presidential Candidate
3-Tour Combat Vet, Philosopher and Law Student
RJ Harris
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Harris Position on Education
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Return education back the states, tribes and citizens
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Karger Position on Education
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Karger laments the fact that despite being the pioneer in public education system, America’s school children now ranks outside the top twenty in Mathematics and Science among their peers in developed nations. The current system requires a drastic overhaul to halt our slide. Participation from the community, the private sector and individuals are needed to tackle the issue. Controversially, Karger cites the national teaching unions as one of the biggest culprit in the failings of our education system.
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Miller Position on Education
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• Miller believes that since the Department of Education has taken the U.S.A. from a #1 world education ranking to the 24th place over the last 35 years that the responsibilty of educating our children should be placed back into the States control.
• He will reduce the Department of Education to a limited position of establishing National standards only.
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Declared 2012
Democratic Presidential Candidate
Current President of the United States
Barack Obama
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Obama Position on Education
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• Obama intends to revive 'No Child Left Behind' by recruiting an army of new teachers and support schools that need improvement rather than punishing them.
• He believes, after high school graduation, that all students should undergo a year of on the job training or higher education to enable the creation of a skilled workforce within the country.
• Obama supports programs like 'Head start' which is an attempt to influence early learning in a child. This equips a young child with qualities and the confidence to go into Kindergarten.
• He suggested investing $10 billion in Education so that every child in the country can access quality, affordable and early childhood education.
• He supports American Opportunity Tax Credit, a universally and fully refundable tax credit that will ensure that the first $4000 of a college education is free for most Americans.
• Obama recommends a Step Up plan which has community organizations and local schools pitching in to offer summer learning opportunities for disadvantaged children.
• He suggested consolidating Direct Loan Programs to save $4.5 billion rather than managing these loans through banks and private money lenders.
• Obama recommends age appropriate sex education right from Kindergarten level to help children escape child molestation.
• He supports setting up of charter schools and private investment in schools saying that it is necessary to experiment and reward good performances in the classroom
• After school and summer school programs for minority and underprivileged youth with parental help. This Obama stressed especially for African American fathers who seemed to be continually absent from home.
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Paul Position on Education
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• Ron Paul thinks that shutting down the Department of Education will improve the quality of education. He wouldn't dismantle public schools but would encourage homeschooling and private schools with tax write-offs.
• He believes that black and hispanic colleges should not get special funding.
• Paul voted yes on vouchers for private and parochial schools.
• He would support a Constitutional amendment that allows voluntary school prayer.
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Declared 2012
Libertarian Presidential Candidate
New York attorney and founder of the Paralegal Institute
Carl Person
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Person Position on Education
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“If regulation of education is ended,” Person claims, “an amazing variety of new, high-quality and low-cost training programs will become available to small businesses and enable them to grow and create millions of new jobs (Campaign Website).” The high school dropout also believes that “because of my exposure to extreme regulation of education for 18 years [of running the Paralegal Institute], I am in a position to know what needs to be done to reduce or eliminate such regulation and the benefits to be obtained. Regulation slows down if not stops the ability and willingness of schools to create and maintain a cutting-edge curriculum (June 27, 2011).”
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Romney Position on Education
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• Mitt Romney points out the underperformance of kids in the US saying that they score only in the bottom 10%- 25%. Therefore there is a need to revamp the education system.
• Education should not be confined to a teacher's union only. There should be involvement from parents, the state, federal government with the support of the teachers.
• Romney advocated better pay for good quality teachers to improve quality of teaching.
• He perpetrates English immersion in schools stressing that English should be learnt at a very young age.
• While Governor Romney brought forth a scholarship for all kids that graduate in the top quarter of the class known as the John and Abigail Adams scholarship, which was 4 years tuition free entry to state colleges and universities.
• He supports the concept of 'No Child left behind'.
• Romney supports setting up of charter educational institutions and conducting immediate third party audit in underperforming schools, giving authorization to principals to replace 10% of underperforming staff etc.
• Romney supported the elimination of Federal Department of education and favored keeping educational reforms t the lowest level involving parents, teachers and community.
• He was against schools inflicting specific religious practices or prayer in schools. Instead Romney stressed on teaching the importance of economics and family values.
• Romney pledged to vote for a means tested school voucher program which gave the students coice toi attend any public or private school of their choice.
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Santorum Position on Education
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Despite the 2004 controversy surrounding his children and the Penn Hills School District, Santorum is perhaps better known in the education sector for his effort at including the ‘Santorum Amendment’ into the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. It was an attempt at including the theory of intelligent design, alongside the theory of evolution, into the public school science syllabus. The attempt proved to be unsuccessful, but it has been largely credited as the catalyst for the decade long battle between the Creationist and the scientific community.
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Snyder Position on Education
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As a teacher, Snyder has first-hand knowledge of our nation’s educational shortcomings. America has the most technologically advanced education in the world, and tools for the most outdated curriculum in western society. It is embarrassing that we are still teaching our children to think along career paths suited for the 1950’s during the 21st century. Our country is the largest financial system in the world, based on capitalism within a free market society, yet we do not teach our children even the basics of finance, let alone the fundamentals of how to prosper within our own country.
To win the war on poverty, we must teach modern avenues of prosperity.
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Woodring Position on Education
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Education Reform:
To make our children the best educated in the free world. To create a standardized national curriculum emphasizing the three basics - reading, writing and math. We need to hold true to learning and not advance these kids until they have achieved the basics
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Wuensche Position on Education
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• Vern Wuensche believes that the Department of Education should be abolished.
• Wuensche believes that parents should be able to choose their child’s school.
• Wuensche believes that recognized experts should be allowed to teach without an education degree.
• He believes that teachers should be allowed to teach intelligent design.
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