1.      Education   Public Education in Utah has got to quit being treated as a political agenda football.  Legislators have to move to a position of treating the needs of our public education system with the highest and most focused sense of urgency and importance.  Legislators have to quit looking at public education from their position as Republicans or Democrats.  Instead, Public Education must be looked at through the eyes of the voters, parents and grand-parents that want the best public education system possible for their children.

Parents state wide have  said they want:  (1) class sizes that are more manageable and teachable, creating a better learning environment for the children; (2) quality teachers that are skilled, educated and trained  in their teaching assignments; (3) a merit system for teachers that reward those teachers who move their students forward while also addressing the issues of teachers that are not improving their students performances; (4) skilled, educated and trained administrators/principals of schools that can create an environment that help the teachers and students achieve positive, creative and exciting educational goals, in a cost effective efficient manner; (4) a choice among public charter schools that may have an education emphasis that the parents and students want to pursue;  (5) a public education system that is funded at a level to meet these wants and needs while also efficiently and effectively managing taxpayers funds in a transparent manner that allows the public to asses fiscal accountability;

I believe that if all candidates for public office, will commit to an Educational Governance Policy that emphasis’ a desire to move the wishes of the voters, parents, grandparents –from the ground floor up instead of an emphasis on the top down governance, remarkable changes will occur in our children’s education.