Dear Director of Foundation for Orange County Public Schools: This e-mail is in response to the Questionnaire you sent me as a result of me running for the Florida State House of Representatives (District 33). I am running as a No Party Affiliation candidate with a Libertarian political philosophy. For the reasons why I chose to run as a No Party Affiliation candidate with a Libertarian political philosophy, please read my http://www.geocities.com/fperez2006/why_npa_eng.html hyperlink.
My campaign slogan is: Libertarian Minded and Independent! Not Beholden to Party Politics! Below are the questions you sent me along with my answers: 1. Where does education fall on your priority list? It's the FIRST item in my political platform as you may see by going to my http://www.geocities.com/fperez2006/index_eng.html hyperlink. 2. What do you feel is the biggest challenge facing our public schools, and what solutions do you offer? The biggest challenge facing public schools is that public schools will NEVER be able to offer the same level of educational services that private schools can offer in a truly competeive free-market environment. They are nothing but government-enforced monopolies where most parents have no REAL choice but to send their children to Public Schools because most parents cannot afford to pay the taxes for public school and at the same time send their children to a private school. So, most parents wind up sending their children to public school whether they want to or not. Since public schools have no real competition, there is no REAL incentive for Public Scholls to offer good education. Thus, quality of education suffers. The problem is stated very clearly in my http://www.geocities.com/fperez2006/school_voucher_eng.html#FinalThoughtsOnCurrentPublicEducationSystem hyperlink. The REAL solution to our current Public School system is to move towards a Pure School Voucher system for grades K - 12. Thois would involve phasing out gradually our Public School System and let private for-profit schools teach youngsters. Parents would use School Vouchers towards ANY private school of their choosing. This would create a competitive free-maket for educational services of K - 12, thus causing educational services to increase in quality. In essence, we must get the government out of the educational services business or else we will continue to talk about solving our educational problems every year their is an election. Details of my plan may be seen at my http://www.geocities.com/fperez2006/school_voucher_eng.html hyperlink. 3. How will you work to ensure adequate and equitable funding and resources for our students and schools? By moving towards the Pure School Voucher systen I propose in my http://www.geocities.com/fperez2006/school_voucher_eng.html hyperink, the cost of educating our youngsters will decrease. As stated in my http://www.geocities.com/fperez2006/school_voucher_eng.html hyperlink, the cost of educating youngsters in private schools is less than in public schools... and the quality is better. 4. What are your plans to help improve student achievement? Move towards a Pure School Voucher system as explained in my http://www.geocities.com/fperez2006/school_voucher_eng.html hyperlink. In a free-market system of education, private schools will not only compete in offering quality education, but to also make it interesting to the students. Making classes more interesting to students will, in turn, cause them to take greater interest in studying and thus increase student achievement. 5. Do you have ideas for enhancing teacher quality? If so, what are they? Yes, I do. Move towards the Pure School Voucher system as I describe in my http://www.geocities.com/fperez2006/school_voucher_eng.html hyperlink. The problem we have now is that many teachers are protected by unions and many parents cannot afford to pay taxes to maintain public schools and pay for private school tuition at the same time. Thus, public schools have a CAPTIVE audience with no real recourse but for parents to send their children to their designated public school whether they like it or not. That is not right. Creating a competive, free-market, private school system using Pure School Vouchers will give parents REAL choice as to where to send their children. Poor performing teachers will not be able to hide behind the protective shield of the Teachers' Unions, thus under a competive, free-market, private school system, private schools will have a REAL incentive to hire high-quality teachers or else lose their business to OTHER private schools. Thus, this is my solution to enhancing teacher quality. Sincerely, Franklin Perez (No Party Affiliation) Florida State House Candidate (District 33) - Year 2006 Libertarian Minded and Independent! Not Beholden to Party Politics! http://www.geocities.com/fperez1776 ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
