Howie Hawkins on Education

	Howie Hawkins on Education Green Party Challenger for President

Free college tuition for qualified students; abolish loans

Provide free college tuition to all qualified students at public universities and vocational schools. Abolish all student and parent loans taken out to finance post-secondary and vocational education.

Eliminate police officers from our schools. Ensure school security personnel are trained for, and held accountable to, conflict resolution techniques and anti-bias training. Security personnel should demonstrate cultural competency and refrain from enforcing white supremacist oppressive tactics.

Source: Green Party Platform adopted by 2020 presidential hopeful , Jul 12, 2020

Increased funding for the arts as essential

Eliminating all laws that seek to restrict or censor artistic expression, including the withholding of government funds for political or moral content. Increased funding for the arts appropriate to their essential social role at local, state and federal levels of government. Education programs in the community that will energize the creativity of every community member from the youngest to the oldest, Source: Green Party Platform adopted by 2020 presidential hopeful , Jul 12, 2020

Lifelong, tuition free public education at any age

Our Economic Bill of Rights includes the right to lifelong, tuition-free public education, from child care and pre-K through K-12 to college, technical, and graduate studies at any age. We want to boost federal funding of public schools to reduce student-teacher ratios to 15-to-1 for pre-K through 12th grade. Source: Declaration of Candidacy for the Green Party Nomination , May 28, 2019

Free public education from pre-K through college

A VOTE FOR THE GREEN TICKET IS A VOTE FOR:

AN ECONOMIC BILL OF RIGHTS: Free Public Education from Pre-K Child Care through College
JUSTICE: Empower Racially Oppressed Communities and Disempower Institutional Racism through Community Control of Police, Schools, Housing, and Businesses
PEACE: A Global Green New Deal--Invest the Peace Dividend from Military Spending Cuts inClean Energy, Regenerative Agriculture, and Basic Human Needs Around the World

Source: 2020 Presidential Campaign website HowieHawkins.us , May 19, 2019

Guarantee a quality education to everyone

Guarantee a quality education to everyone, including equal access to resources such as books, school facilities that work, and great teachers who are paid enough to stay in the profession. Source: 2006 Senate campaign website, hawkinsforsenate.org, "Issues" , Jun 30, 2006