Keeping The Promise Of...
Education Reform

Our children are Indiana’s future, and they deserve every opportunity to be well prepared for the challenges of tomorrow. Unfortunately, in many places, our schools are letting them down.

As I visited schools across the Second District of Indiana, teachers, administrators and parents asked me to fight for real education reform. They did not send me to Washington to increase the federal government’s role in their lives. They sent me to fight for innovation and reform by funneling resources, not red tape, from the federal government to our local schools.

Our founding fathers enshrined in the Constitution the principle of federalism - the notion that the federal government should involve itself only with those issues that states and localities cannot resolve on their own. States and localities are closest to the needs of the people and know best how to address those needs.

For this reason, I support empowering parents with school choice. Every child must have the opportunity to pursue the American Dream. Forcing them to attend failing schools robs them of this chance. Further, I firmly believe parents are much better positioned than bureaucrats to determine which schools their children should attend. Because of these convictions, as a public servant and a parent, I will continue to fight for local control and responsibility for education.