Elizabeth Warren: A 2020 Hopeful Would Quadruple School Funding

On Monday, White House hopeful Elizabeth Warren said that if elected she would roughly quadruple federal funding for public schools and incentivize states to adopt funding approaches that more equitably fund lower-income schools.

U.S. senator from Massachusetts Warren who is now a front-runner for the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nomination along with former Vice President Joe Biden, wrote in a post on the website Medium that her plan would result in the federal government investing an additional $450 billion in elementary and secondary schools over the next decade.

“Our current approach to school funding at the federal, state, and local level underfunds our schools and results in many students from low-income backgrounds receiving less funding,” Warren wrote.

She further wrote, “My plan makes a historic new federal investment in public schools – and pushes both the federal government and state governments to dedicate more resources to the schools and students that need them most.”

State and local governments in the United States, fund about 90% of public primary and secondary education, remaining 10% primarily with the federal government providing through the “Title I” program.

The increase in Title I funding, which might be supported by Warren’s proposal for a two percent wealth tax on household assets on the far side $50 million, would conjointly cowl a rise in teacher pay that she often mentions on the campaign path.

Warren wrote that she would “push to cancel all existing student meal debt” and allot extra money to the free college meals program. She would conjointly push to ban the employment of standardized testing as a big think about firing lecturers, closing colleges and different major choices.

Warren would conjointly impose transparency necessities on in camera operated privately funded schools and finish federal funding for the creation of latest charter schools, public school Federal Program is “abject failure,” with many faculties underneath investigation by regulators. She would ban for-profit charter colleges outright and direct the interior Revenue Service to analyze non-profit-making charters that ar pass by for-profit entities or operate with the help of for-profit service suppliers.