Education
"Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." (Joseph Stalin)
Education is a tool in the hands of the next generations. It is the best gift we can offer to our kids, a gift than should promote Enlightenment and knowledge, combining them with intellectual complexity and the thirst of pursuing more than we already have. Education is philosophical, mathematical, convenient, and pleasant. However, we are observing a complete change in the meaning of this word. Today, education signifies despise by the attendees and desire by the missing. And our educational policy is the main source of this drastic trauma in our society.
Public education is one of those several programs that is meant for the best intentions but do not work out in a good way. Our federal government is too bureaucratic, too expensive, too regulative, and not accountable enough to provide everybody with a free public education. Tiffany Briscoe wants to permanently reform education so that more children have access to a better enlightenment.
- Slowly abolish the Federal Department of Education, first established in 1979. Its reintegration into the Department of Health and Human Services will reduce severely the bureaucracy of our educational system. The goal will be to finally end the agency in its totality, leaving a simple observational public group to analyze the problems and propose solutions to State, local, and private organizations. Each State has a constitutional right to follow its own educational policy, not the one dictated by the Feds.
- End all federal regulations over education that end up costing nothing less than 5% of a State's educational budget. 16% of all federal funding of States for education is made to pay for regulations, while an extra 5% is always wasted on federal mandates that appear to be unnecessary.
- Provide federal help to those States that are currently in a budget deficit and wish to transform their educational system into a voucher one, directed at private schools. Vouchers, which would ultimately be only given by county and municipality administrations, are a great advance toward a better school system that includes parental choice, control, and more reliable and accountable teachers, all that while the final costs would be less for a State government if an entire system transferred to a private one.
