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Strong cradle to grave educational opportunities are the
best antidote to the off shoring of jobs. Public schools
are the centers of our communities. Yet many of our community
schools are threatened by unsustainable cost increases for
health care, skyrocketing special education costs, and ill
conceived proposals for unfettered school choice.
Early childhood education is the best educational cost
containment strategy. Research has clearly demonstrated
that early childhood education reduces special education
costs. Yet both our Federal and State leaders embrace tax
cuts for the wealthy over investment in our children. This
is not the Vermont way.
We can make the choice to keep and improve our community
schools. We need state leadership that will expose the disaster
and sham of the “No Child Left Behind Act.”
We must not go back on our commitment to public education.
Investing in early education and higher education is the
best long term economic development strategy, and it’s
the only way out of poverty for many of our people.
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