Why Improving Education is a National Security Issue

“Young Americans’ inability to meet education qualifications highlights underlying issues in America’s educational foundations, with national consequences”.

Our current underperforming, racially segregated K-12 public education and “Debt for Diploma” system of funding higher education is not working. This problem is increasingly dominating political discourse and has been well documented by public policy think-tank Demos and many others. It’s old news, unfortunately, that our insultingly low teacher’s pay and property tax funding model of public schools creates huge income and racial disparities in our children’s readiness for the workforce. And at a time when higher education is more essential than ever, this system leaves millions of America’s young people locked out due high and rising costs, or weighed down by decades of student loans debt.