Comprehensive Innovative Education Reform

A plan to provide all Americans with quality, affordable education

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As U.S. Senator, Alan Khazei will help lead a fight in the Senate and a movement across America to make a quality education for all the defining civil rights and jobs issues of the 21st century. Alan’s goals are to close the achievement gap and provide every child and young person in our country with quality, affordable early learning, K-12 public education, and post-secondary education.

A Summary of Alan's 5 Point Plan

1. Universal Access to Quality, Affordable Early Childhood Learning

Create a $10 billion, ten-year Early Learning Challenge Fund, require 25% of all Child Care and Development Fund money to be used for early morning and after school care at high quality Pre-K and Head Start settings, and invest in educator quality for early learning with $1 billion over 5 years.

2. Support Teaching Professionals

Make teaching and educational leadership one of our most respected and revered professions and fight for a quality teacher in every classroom and a quality leader in every school by doubling the federal investment in teacher and school leadership quality, rewarding our most successful educators, and focusing those investments on reform and results.

3. Support Innovation & Invest in What Works at Scale

Double the federal charter school investment to support expansion of high-quality charter schools and make similar investments over the next five years to expand other high-quality public schools, expand the school day and year, enact and fund the TIME Act, modernize school buildings and create jobs while making schools vibrant centers of their community. Pass the SAFRA Act to generate $4 billion this year for education reform.

4. Reauthorize the Elementary & Secondary Education Act to Replace No Child Left Behind

Build on the strengths and fix the failures of NCLB by doubling federal funding for teacher and school leader quality, invest in high-quality, useful assessments aligned to rigorous, common standards, focus accountability on student improvement and not just proficiency targets, and turn around our lowest-performing schools.

5. Make a College Education Affordable to Every American Who Wants One

Pay the full costs of college (up to $10,000 per year) for each year of community or national service. Substantially increase Pell Grants, reduce interest on student loans, substantially simplify the FAFSA forms, and invest in community colleges.