• Prepares students for life after school by making them college and/or career ready

• Encourages and recognizes the need for innovative approaches to educating by loosening/waiving regulations that stifle such innovation

• Minimizes intervention of the state and federal governments

• Promotes market-based pay for teachers by

• Recognizing that different teachers/subjects/assignments have different market values

• Rejecting pay systems based on seniority and education levels

• Rewarding effective teachers through a merit pay system

• Addresses ineffective teachers through tenure reform

• Promotes teacher freedom from forced union membership

• Provides for alternative pathways to become a teacher, recognizing that traditional teacher licensure programs are not the only pathway to having a quality instructor in the classroom

• Provides an outcome-based effective finance system that

• Is both adequate and equitable

• Clearly delineates the Legislature as the body responsible for providing funding

• Rewards schools/districts for high performance and allows students to escape chronically underperforming schools

• Requires transparency in spending taxpayer dollars with full disclosure to the public on how money is spent at the building and program level

• Provides easy access to the public on school performance through a school grading system

• Encourages efficient spending through such efforts as

• Cooperative purchasing

• Combining administrative costs

• Unifying teacher benefits

• Allows parental-based school choice

• Expansion of the Tax Credit Scholarship Program

• Changing laws to allow real (independent) charter schools

• Establishing an education spending account (ESA) program that allow parents to make education choices for their children