Education and Vocational Training

 The purpose of education is to replace a narrow mind with an open mind.  The focus of education should be academics and not activism, instruction and not indoctrination, ideas and not ideology, and free thought and not dogma. Dan believes education should teach our youth HOW to think, and not WHAT to think. Dan opposes the teaching of CRT, DEI,  and transgenderism to our students, particularly our pre-pubescent and elementary education children.

Dan supports parental choice to create competition among the schools. Dan opposes teachers’ unions and school districts that compromise the education of our children or advance a political agenda at the expense of our children’s growth and development. Dan supports school choice and school vouchers for our students and their parents or guardians who want to choose learning and instruction over ideology and indoctrination. Dan also supports charter and magnet schools, home-school co-ops and vocational learning.

Dan supports more affordable public higher education by reducing the bloated payrolls, pensions, and perks of overpaid, underworked administrators and bureaucrats at public colleges and universities that inflate the costs to our students and their families. In Massachusetts, 96 out of the 100 highest-paid state employees work at UMASS.

Dan supports chargebacks or claw-backs for the costs of student loan forgiveness to the colleges and universities that received the government-backed student loan monies but short-circuited the career paths and short-changed the earning capacities of their students and graduates.

Dan supports 100% deduction of principal and interest repayments of government-backed student loans from individual taxes. 

Dan supports publicly-funded vocational education and training for low-income residents, the underemployed and unemployed to transition them off taxpayer-funded public assistance into gainful employment in vital fields such as healthcare (RNs, LPNs, CNAs) and the skilled trades.