Andrew Yang's answer to: "What kind of education reform would be most beneficial to the U.S. right now?"

In a Quora session, Democratic Presidential candidate Andrew Yang answered the above question.

 
Yang's proposals for K-12 education include:

• Move away from property taxes as primary funding source for public schools.
  
• Deprioritise standardised tests.
  
• Increase teacher salaries.
  
• Strengthen families and reduce financial burden with his freedom dividend proposal to boost the out of home factors that determine most of student's academic performance.
  
• Life skills education (financial literacy, managing technology, positive psychology and relationships).
  

 
Yang's proposals for higher education include:

• Deprioritise college.
  
• Promote vocational education.
  
• Reduce student debt (e.g a 10 by 10 forgiveness plan where no one is pays more than 10% of their income for more than 10 years) and make it easier to discharge through bankruptcy.
  
• Tie access to federal money (grants and loans) to administrator to student ratio in order to curb runaway inflation in college costs.

Submitted September 26, 2019 at 12:36PM by DragonGod2718 https://ift.tt/2m3i80U