Lucie Lapointe Volotzky for State Assembly 38th 2020

In post-pandemic California, the face of education must dramatically change. Distance Learning and Home Schooling is the “New Normal”.

It’s time to positively rethink education. Our students must receive the best education that technology can provide. We cannot succumb to the whims of Government Edu-crats, School Employee Unions or Social Engineers.

Student learning must guide our reform efforts, not indoctrination. Educational tax dollars must update the “classroom” and respond to student educational needs not administrator overhead.

I am a firm supporter of choice in Education — your choice. You should not have to move to have a good education. Charter schools provide a necessary stepping-stone to young people achieving their educational goals. Study after study confirms charter school students have a higher college acceptance rate than those attending public schools.

I will not abandon our community public schools either. We need to redouble and focus our public school educational reform efforts. Give all students the tools they need to obtain the quality education they deserve.

I support expanded home schooling and distance learning options for our public school students. We must seek opportunities to collaborate with the Tech Industry. We must find new ways to ensure all students have access to the educational technology and tools they need for a quality education.

Lastly, this pandemic has revealed the inflated cost of a post-secondary education. The coming academic year features another barrage of community colleges and universities cancelling classes. Now is not the time to be seeking higher or maintaining inflated per unit costs and attendance fees. Let’s return the savings of technology to students by reducing college unit costs and student fees – by law.