EDUCATION

1. Cut funding for scholastic sports programs and place that money toward up to date textbooks and improve school facilities from Elementary school to College. Scholastic sports programs should have the same status as any after-school clubs or organizations.

2. The CNP objects the idea of school uniforms.

3. It should be compulsory for students from Kindergarten to Grade 12 to learn at least 2 foreign languages as well as more emphasis on learning Geography, Cultures, Science, and Computer Training.

4. The CNP also advocates the education on sex and contraception at an early age to cut down on future teenage pregnancies. Drug prevention education should also be a part of the learning curriculum. Parents should also take a better role in these issues as well.

5. The CNP opposes the use of advertising and commercials in all public schools.

6. Improve the quality of teachers with support for career-long training. On-the-jobs apprenticeships for teachers-in-training. Teacher pay scales comparable to other professionals with similar education and responsibilities. Teachers should also take competency tests every other year.

7. Students should learn the Metric system from Kindergarten and up. One of the CNP's goals is for Cascadia to fully convert to Metric within a generation.

8. The federal financing and investing of all schools instead of the use of local property taxes. Spending would be in accordance to student population with adjustments based on need to help bring up school quality and student performance in poor communities.

9. To eliminate the stifling centralized administration with site-based planning, policy-making, and management with participation by parents and teachers with release-time. Maintain central support staff for decentrally administered schools.

10. Stop the diversion of public funds to for-profit corporations or religious organizations running charter schools with unaccountable administrations, uncertified teachers, and segregated student bodies.

11. Students should be required to study and have access in school libraries the civil codebooks of their respective state where they live. It is important that students know the depth of their legal and civil rights. Washington and Oregon's schools do not have such a requirement and this is to rectify that fact.

12. To put an end to school vouchers that diverts education funding from the public schools to private schools. Many of who fund for profit schools and religious schools. Government financing of religious schools infringe on the separation of church and state.

13. To reduce the size of classrooms to a 15 to 1 teacher ratio.

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