Today’s education problems:

Performance has not improved with the Washington initiatives (“No Child Left Behind”) and increasing costs hamper achieving improved performance in both primary and secondary education and is threatening to push higher education out of reach for millions of students and families.

What has contributed to this problem:

  1. the change in focus to a standardized test performance away from an individualized curriculum developed on a local level by the teachers, the educators, who are in the field and are more qualified to assess the needs, the talents, and the environment in which they find their children.
  2. Absentee parents expecting teachers to provide their children with social guidance and every day life coping skills.
  3. Funding which is often linked to a dysfunctional property tax system.
  4. College pricing rose 36% with adjustment for inflation between 1995 and 2005

What needs to happen to solve the problems:

  1. The classroom needs to be returned to the teachers.
  2. A stable funding system needs to be established through the state legislatures for basic primary and secondary education while having available federal grants to assist in those specific locations that demonstrate unusual need.
  3. A wider adaption of technological advances which permit higher education to reach into the home of our students needs to be pursued. By expanding the use of the available electronic interconnectivity, we can make available to our citizens the chance to improve and achieve a vocation or a college education at a much lower cost. In addition to cost savings such an online arm of our education system would permit our citizens to pursue this education on their own schedule, allowing many to continue holding jobs and providing for their families.
  4. Reinstate the 20/220 rule for hardship deferral of student loans as proposed in the Burr Isakson Bill (S2303) and the Walberg bill (HR4344)

What you can do to help Dr. Stall make this happen.

  1. Give him your vote so he can represent you in Washington.
  2. Use your sphere of influence to attract others to his campaign.
  3. Volunteer and become involved.