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| Portrait from Jill Stein for President |
- Provide tuition-free education from kindergarten through college, thus eliminating the student debt crisis.
- Forgive existing student debt.
- Protect our public school systems from privatization
- End high-stakes testing and stop punishing students and teachers for failures of the system in which they work.
- Stop denying students diplomas based on tests.
- Stop using merit pay to punish teachers. "
Establish basic right to a free college education Students must be engaged because they bring creativity and fresh life into our economy. We will provide tuition-free higher education, since it's comparable to a high school education in the 20th century--you need a higher education degree in the 21st century economy and it should be provided as a basic right.
A: To my mind, the issue here is not so much national versus local; the issue is more one of child-centered learning, and learning for lifetime education as opposed to teaching to the test. We focus on student needs, not corporate needs.
The Green Party of the United States: "The Green Party views learning as a lifelong and life-affirming process to which all people should have access. We cannot state more forcefully our belief that in learning, and openness to learning, we find the foundation of our Platform."
We recommend the following actions:
a. Eliminate gross inequalities in school funding. Federal policy on education should act principally to provide equal access to a quality education.
b. Provide free college tuition to all qualified students at public universities and vocational schools. It's time to forgive all student and parent loans taken out to finance post-secondary and vocational education.
c. Oppose the administration of public schools by private, for-profit entities.
d. Increase funding for after-school and daycare programs.
e. Promote a diverse set of educational opportunities, including bi-lingual education, continuing education, job retraining, distance learning, mentoring and apprenticeship programs.
f. Give K-12 classroom teachers professional status and salaries commensurate with advanced education, training and responsibility.
g. Teach non-violent conflict resolution and humane education at all levels of education.
h. Prohibit advertising to children in schools. Corporations should not be allowed to use the schools as vehicles for commercial advertising or corporate propaganda.
i. Provide healthy school meals that are rich in vitamins, minerals, protein and fiber, and offer plant-based vegetarian options. Support Farm-to-School programs that provide food from local family farms and educational opportunities.
j. Ban the sale of soda pop and junk food in schools. Junk food is defined as food or beverages that are relatively high in saturated or trans fat, added sugars or salt, and relatively low in vitamins, minerals, protein and fiber.
k. Oppose military and corporate control over the priorities and topics of university academic research.
l. Expand opportunities for universal higher education and life-long learning.
m. Make student loans available to all college students, with forgiveness for graduates who choose public service occupations.
n. Repeal the No Child Left Behind Act.
o. Include a vigorous and engrossing civics curriculum in later elementary and secondary schools, to teach students to be active citizens.
p. Encourage parental responsibility by supporting parenting, and increasing opportunities for parents to be as involved as possible in their children's education. Values start with parents. Teaching human sexuality is a parental and school responsibility.
q. Expand arts education and physical education opportunities at school.
r. Recognize the viable alternative of home-based education.
s. Oppose efforts to restrict the teaching of scientific information and the portrayal of religious belief as fact.
t. Provide adequate academic and vocational education and training to prisoners.
u. We urge that our nation amend its "binding declaration" with respect to the "Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict" to join the rest of the world in setting 18 as the absolute minimum age for military recruitment.
v. No person should be permitted to sign away eight (8) years of their life to the armed forces, without full written disclosure of what is expected of them and what they can expect in return from the government. We demand that the practice of deceiving prospective service recruits about the truth of their service contract be recognized as a fraudulent practice and sufficient grounds for revoking an enlistment contract. Current practices holding individuals legally to all the terms of their military service contract should also apply to the government.
w. We demand an end to the militarization of our schools. JROTC programs are an expensive drain on our limited educational resources and a diversion from their important mission to prepare our young to assume their role in a peaceful tomorrow. ASVAB testing is being used to mine public school student bodies for data to support military recruiting. Forbid military access to student records. The Pentagon's Recruitment Command is misdirecting public tax dollars on manipulative campaigns that prey on our young. We insist that local education authorities stand up to these destructive practices.
The Green Party of the United States: "The Green Party views learning as a lifelong and life-affirming process to which all people should have access. We cannot state more forcefully our belief that in learning, and openness to learning, we find the foundation of our Platform."
We recommend the following actions:
a. Eliminate gross inequalities in school funding. Federal policy on education should act principally to provide equal access to a quality education.
b. Provide free college tuition to all qualified students at public universities and vocational schools. It's time to forgive all student and parent loans taken out to finance post-secondary and vocational education.
c. Oppose the administration of public schools by private, for-profit entities.
d. Increase funding for after-school and daycare programs.
e. Promote a diverse set of educational opportunities, including bi-lingual education, continuing education, job retraining, distance learning, mentoring and apprenticeship programs.
f. Give K-12 classroom teachers professional status and salaries commensurate with advanced education, training and responsibility.
g. Teach non-violent conflict resolution and humane education at all levels of education.
h. Prohibit advertising to children in schools. Corporations should not be allowed to use the schools as vehicles for commercial advertising or corporate propaganda.
i. Provide healthy school meals that are rich in vitamins, minerals, protein and fiber, and offer plant-based vegetarian options. Support Farm-to-School programs that provide food from local family farms and educational opportunities.
j. Ban the sale of soda pop and junk food in schools. Junk food is defined as food or beverages that are relatively high in saturated or trans fat, added sugars or salt, and relatively low in vitamins, minerals, protein and fiber.
k. Oppose military and corporate control over the priorities and topics of university academic research.
l. Expand opportunities for universal higher education and life-long learning.
m. Make student loans available to all college students, with forgiveness for graduates who choose public service occupations.
n. Repeal the No Child Left Behind Act.
o. Include a vigorous and engrossing civics curriculum in later elementary and secondary schools, to teach students to be active citizens.
p. Encourage parental responsibility by supporting parenting, and increasing opportunities for parents to be as involved as possible in their children's education. Values start with parents. Teaching human sexuality is a parental and school responsibility.
q. Expand arts education and physical education opportunities at school.
r. Recognize the viable alternative of home-based education.
s. Oppose efforts to restrict the teaching of scientific information and the portrayal of religious belief as fact.
t. Provide adequate academic and vocational education and training to prisoners.
u. We urge that our nation amend its "binding declaration" with respect to the "Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict" to join the rest of the world in setting 18 as the absolute minimum age for military recruitment.
v. No person should be permitted to sign away eight (8) years of their life to the armed forces, without full written disclosure of what is expected of them and what they can expect in return from the government. We demand that the practice of deceiving prospective service recruits about the truth of their service contract be recognized as a fraudulent practice and sufficient grounds for revoking an enlistment contract. Current practices holding individuals legally to all the terms of their military service contract should also apply to the government.
w. We demand an end to the militarization of our schools. JROTC programs are an expensive drain on our limited educational resources and a diversion from their important mission to prepare our young to assume their role in a peaceful tomorrow. ASVAB testing is being used to mine public school student bodies for data to support military recruiting. Forbid military access to student records. The Pentagon's Recruitment Command is misdirecting public tax dollars on manipulative campaigns that prey on our young. We insist that local education authorities stand up to these destructive practices.
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