Education is crucial in setting up our country to succeed in the future through the talent of our younger generations. However, in recent years we seem to have abandoned this core obligation. K-12 test scores are concerningly low nationwide. The Department of Education has been gutted resulting in increased costs at the state and local levels. Title I funding was cut, and public schools have been vilified and demonized for over a decade in an attempt to move more public money into private schools. In rural areas, these cuts have resulted in schools shutting their doors and consolidating with others. This takes away an important community identity for these small towns, and further reduces the amount of individual attention these students can get in an already resource-starved school district.

There are also significant issues with our higher education system. While university attendance has increased dramatically over the past three decades, so has the cost. College graduates were sold a narrative of a return on their investment which never came, leaving them drowning in student loan debt.