Positions and Views of Erskine B. Bowles
on Education
| Previous Candidate for US Senate, North Carolina |
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| Education |
Positions and Views |
| No Child Left Behind Act, a General Statement |
Our efforts must begin by fixing No Child Left Behind. While Erskine believes in setting high standards and holding educators accountable, he also believes that we cannot raise standards in our schools without giving educators the resources necessary to achieve them. The administration's budget slashes funding for NCLB by 34% below the authorized level in FY 2004. As Senator, Erskine will fight for full funding of this program as well as allow for common sense flexibility in the application of new testing and teacher standards. Today, No Child Left Behind is an unfunded federal mandate
Source: Candidate Website (10/02/2004) |
| Improving Education |
Strong public schools are the single most important key to fostering economic prosperity in North Carolina and to providing opportunity for all of our citizens. By giving students the tools with which to learn, the modern schools in which to learn and the best teachers from which to learn, Erskine believes we can provide every child in North Carolina the education they need to succeed.
North Carolina has been a national leader in the effort to improve public schools. But severe shortfalls in state funding and other challenges facing our schools make it imperative that the federal government become a better partner in helping North Carolina and other states continue their efforts to restore accountability to public schools, prepare students to learn, and recruit and retain the best teachers.
Source: Candidate Website (10/02/2004) |
| Head Start |
The federal government should fully fund Head Start and other early childhood initiatives so that children come to school ready to learn. The 1997 Balanced Budget Agreement that Erskine helped negotiate created 36,000 new spaces at Head Start. Recognizing that we must begin these efforts even earlier, Erskine also supports Governor Mike Easley's More-at-Four program.
Source: Candidate Website (10/02/2004) |
| No Child Left Behind Act Federal Funding Level |
See above.
Source: Candidate Website (10/02/2004) |
| These are available issue topics for which there were no responses. |
| Education, a General Statement |
| Sex Education and Birth Control Options |
| Evolution and Intelligent Design Education |
| Gay and Lesbian Orientation Education |
| Religion in Public Schools |
| Public Schools K-12 |
| "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance |
| Local Control Over Education |
| Teacher Textbook Selection |
| Private School Vouchers |
| Charter Schools |
| Standardized Testing |
| Teacher Tenure |
| Higher Education |
| Student Loans, Scholarships and Pell Grants |
| Education Tax Credits |
| Teacher Unions |
| Department of Education |
| Pre-School |
| High Schools |
| Adult Education |
| Dropouts |
| Community Colleges |
| Classroom Size |
| Extended Learning Time |
| After-School Programs |
| Parental Involvement |
| Computers in Schools |
| Federal Mandates |
| Federal Funding of Private Schools |
| Teacher Pay |
| Teacher Standards |
| Student Standards |
| National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) |
| Education Global Superiority |
| Junk Food Vending Machines in Public Schools |
| Education Gap with Other Countries |
| School Choice |
| Home Schooling |
| Special Education |
| Magnet Schools |
| Rural Schools |
| Summer School |
| Boy-Girl Achievement Gap |
| Black-White Achievement Gap |
| Title IX 'Equal Opportunities for Girls' |
| Bilingual Education |
| Math and Science |
| Art and Music |
| School Safety |
| Drugs in Schools |