{"id":763,"date":"2018-09-13T14:26:31","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T18:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertyunionparty.org\/?p=763"},"modified":"2018-09-13T14:26:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T18:26:34","slug":"statement-for-letsgrowkids-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"statement for letsgrowkids.org"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Question: Do you support or oppose efforts to develop a high-quality, <br\/>\naffordable early care and learning system in Vermont, and why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am in favor of free education from cradle to grave. Education adds value not<br\/>\nonly for the individual but for society as a whole. The question is not if <br\/>\neducation is affordable the question is whether we can afford not to educate<br\/>\nour people. Child care is essential to allow for people to live their lives in<br\/>\na less stressful and more meaningful manner. I support both funded child care <br\/>\nand leave for parents to care for their children for the first year after they<br\/>\nare born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Question: What would you do to ensure there is sufficient capacity to meet the <br\/>\nneeds of Vermont families with young children?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would promote fully funded childcare along with technological measures to <br\/>\nallow for parents to view their kids when they are at childcare facilities.<br\/>\nI also believe that act 46 school consolidation is counterproductive to good<br\/>\neducational outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Question: What would be your recommendation on how to fund a high-quality, <br\/>\naffordable system in our state?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a question that involves more than statewide funding. The US as a whole<br\/>\nspends more on the military than any other country in the world. Vermont should<br\/>\nwithdraw from excessive military funding, unnecessary, expensive and cruel <br\/>\nimprisonment of people convicted of petty or drug offenses and surveillance <br\/>\nprograms. The money wasted on these programs would do more than fund education.<br\/>\nIt would be able to fund health-care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Do you support or oppose efforts to develop a high-quality, affordable early care and learning system in Vermont, and why? I am in favor of free education from cradle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty-union-party-member-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":764,"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}