Education
- We call for a value-oriented public education system that emphasizes the importance of literacy, good citizenship, civic participation, and healthy self-realization.
- We oppose the privatization of public education and the distortion of the educational mission that occurs when education becomes the mere training of students to serve near-term corporate employment needs.
- We call upon educators to prepare students for living in a sustainable society. We support access to quality, free public education at all levels, and support significant rollbacks of tuition and fees at public institutions of higher learning.
- We support real commitments to eliminate disparities in education and to prohibit using standardized testing (such as MCAS) to punish students.
- We support a fully funded public library system.
- We support the right of school systems to provide bilingual education classes when they judge this is in the best interests of their students.
