Bill Hall (Libertarian)
Positions & Views
Education- Support freedom of choice in education. Competition from charter and private schools and homeschooling pushes traditional public schools to innovate and better educate, and saves taxpayer dollars. Don’t mandate a national “common core” curriculum. Give schools more freedom to choose their own social policies. Support fiscal responsibility. Address the unfunded school pension crisis by replacing defined benefit with defined contribution plans, letting poorly performing schools fail rather than bailing them out, and smartly re-deploying funds to focus on academic achievement.
Dismal education results – Apply consistent M-STEP testing standards to measure progress and identify and address failing schools and teachers. Federal mandates (common core, transgender rights) – Leave decisions to local school districts, teachers and parents.
Fiscal Responsibility – freeze participation in existing underfunded defined benefit pension plans and shift future contributions to defined contribution plans; don’t bail out failing school re-purpose funds to improve academics and pay teachers, not fund sports and administrators
Dismal education results – Apply consistent M-STEP testing standards to measure progress and identify and address failing schools and teachers. Federal mandates (common core, transgender rights) – Leave decisions to local school districts, teachers and parents.
Fiscal Responsibility – freeze participation in existing underfunded defined benefit pension plans and shift future contributions to defined contribution plans; don’t bail out failing school re-purpose funds to improve academics and pay teachers, not fund sports and administrators