Education is the foundation for our future. Every child and young person deserves the opportunity to reach their full potential. 

But today, we are failing our students and our educators. Our schools are struggling. We're facing an administration that has all but shuttered the Department of Education, a national teacher shortage that's impacting Tennessee, unequal access to technology, and school funding per student that's dead last in the country. Here in Tennessee, the voucher program is stripping our public schools of the already limited resources they need to educate the next generation.

I am committed to building an education system that allows every child to learn, grow, and thrive.

What I’ll work for in Congress to fix it:

• Invest in educators by raising salaries to recruit the best and brightest minds to teach our children

• Cap student loan interest rates to make a quality education affordable for every young person

• Push for federal education infrastructure dollars to address the $330 million backlog in school renovations and new construction projects across our district, and make sure every classroom has the technology students need to compete

• Expand dual enrollment funding to reduce the costs of attending higher education

• Increase transparency of federal spending on education

• Lower cost barriers for trade and vocational education to diversify the workforce and prepare for the economy of the future

• Fund affordable childcare and early childhood education to give every child a fair shot at success