I believe all Alabamians deserve access to high quality education. That is why I will work hard every day as Alabama’s governor to:
- close the widening gap between cost of living and cost of education,
- work to ensure that public schools have the resources needed to better prepare students for the changing economy,
- ensure that public dollars are not used to support private schools that target only the elite,
- ensure that teachers are better compensated and have secure retirement plans,
- protect funds for pre-college programs, Tech-prep and Perkins Loans,
- protect National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities,
- protect research funding,
- support legislation that provides psychological counseling to students who willfully disrupt the learning experience or purposefully do not engage in the classroom,
- support efforts to connect college students to the right people and resources within their community to improve the chances of job acquisition, and
- support legislation that closes the widening gap between cost of living and cost of education as college tuition and fees have risen nearly three times as fast as median family income.