California’s K-12 schools are 44 th in the nation. This is a disgrace, and it steals opportunity from young people, particularly Black and African-American students. We need to make sure a student’s education isn’t determined by where they live or how wealthy their family is. My solutions to help make our schools work for everyone:

- Make it easy for parents to get students out of failing schools and into good public or
  charter schools. Give parents more voice in what students are taught and more
  information about how their school is doing compared to other schools.
 

- Pay teachers like our future depends on them, because it does. Reform tenure so
  that we can reward good teachers and retrain or dismiss bad ones.
 

- Come to bipartisan agreement that our schools need to be safe zones where gangs,
  drugs, and weapons are prohibited, and our students kept safe.