Jeb Bush promoting education plans choices

Jeb Bush promoting education plans choices

"Dr. King's vision for The united states was based on equality of opportunity," Bush said in a video announcing the plan. "Without a quality schooling there is no equality of opportunity. It is the civil rights issue of our time."

Jeb Bush marked the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday by releasing a plan on what he called the modern-day civil rights challenge of schooling.

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In the video as well as a post for the net site Medium, Bush said his plan is based on school choice (including charter schools), accountability for student achievement, an emphasis on early childhood schooling, and moving authority from the federal government to local officials, teachers, and parents
Bush wrote in his Medium post that improving schools "doesnât need additional money or programs designed by Washington," and "thatâ  why my plan is budget neutral and returns power to states, local school districts and parents."

The former Florida governor calls for converting federal tax-free college savings accounts to overall "Education Savings Accounts" that parents could use to finance any level of schooling, including charter schools pre-K programs. Bush also calls for consolidating a variety of federal assistance programs in to money that states can use to finance scholarships for low-income students.

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The schooling plan includes a revival of necessary reporting on student achievement, saying that "transparency yields better results."

Bush, who has dropped in Republican polls behind Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and other rivals, released his schooling plan weeks before the Iowa caucuses open the GOP nomination method.

As for rising college costs, Bush called for a restructuring of how loans are made.

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"Instead of the current burdensome federal loan method, they will give all high school graduates access to a $50,000 line of credit through their Educative Savings Account (ESA) to pay for college and career training," Bush wrote. "For every $10,000 spent, students would repay 1% of their income for 25 years."

In his Medium post, Bush said poor students are being hurt by the current method.

A number of Bush's ideas stem from his years as Florida's governor from 1999 to 2007. Critics said his emphasis on school choice promoted private schooling at the expenses of public schools, shortchanging poor students in particular.

"The American Dream  the idea that anything is feasible through hard work  is threatened by an schooling method failing to prepare the next generation of kids for success,