(CNSNews.com) – In response to a question about how to help U.S. companies find “talented and qualified” employees for growing companies, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said one place to start is education reform, by getting the federal government out of it, abolishing the Department of Education, block-granting money to the states, ending Common Core, and allowing more school choice.
“Now, in terms of getting new and able workers, we need to do several things,” said Sen. Cruz during CNN’s town hall program in Wisconsin on Tuesday evening. “Number one, we need to reform education. You know, the step to having well-trained workers is having a strong education program.”
“And if you look at education right now, number one, I think the federal government needs to get the heck out of it,” he said.
“It's one of the reasons I promised on the very first day in office that I'm going to direct the Department of Education that Common Core ends that day,” said the senator.
Cruz continued, “And I think what we ought to be doing is abolishing the federal Department of Education and block-granting that money to send it back to Wisconsin. I think the people of Wisconsin know much better what to do with that money.”
“And part of that money, I think, should be directed at school choice programs, and allowing people who are trapped in failing schools to have the option of going to private schools, going to parochial schools, injecting competition in failing schools to empower parents and empower students,” he said.
“I think school choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st Century,” Cruz added.
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7 comments:
This stance sounds very familiar...Like it belonged to Trump already. Does Ted Cruz have an original thought? Seems he likes taking all Trump's initiatives but then turns around and says he doesn't know how to be the president. If you're voting for Cruz, you might as well vote for Trump because he's originated every one of Cruz's platforms.
Where do the people who work at the Department of Ed go if you abolish it?
Certainly not a new idea.
The Federal Board of Education is really a useless organization as it consists of nothing but bureaucracy and waste. Why shouldn't education be up to a local/state level? They know best what works best for their students not some puppet sitting in Washington.
CATO has said this for years. Trump said a few days ago that education was one of the 3 most important functions of the Federal Gov. Flip-flop or just stupid?
11:55 where do the people who lose their jobs in the private sector go??? TRUMP2016
Cruz is now starting to copy Trumps campaign stance.
Reinforces my belief that Cruz is not honest and only saying what we want to hear just to get a vote.
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