especially in the swing states. “Education is my number one concern,” stated Gore in the second Presidential Debate. I think that education is going to be the biggest part of this election. Many people are uneducated and Gore’s plan will stop that. For example, Gore supports hiring 100,000 new teachers nation wide in order to reduce the class size will help with children getting better education. Gore had stated that at the end of the second debate. He also proposes mandatory teacher testing for all new teachers and rigorous evaluations after granting teacher licenses. This will make for education in America to be the same in every school. This is what needs to be done to make every child as well educated as the next. Bush wants to allocate $5 billion to establish the “Reading First” initiative so every child can read by the third grade. This plan is good but most kids can read before third grade and with help of parents this will improve. I don’t think Bush’s plans are going to go over as well as Gore’s. Al Gore supports the interests of the middle class while Bush is for the wealthier. “We need help for the middle-class families to pay college tuition by making it tax deductible. I’m for a lifelong commitment to education,” Gore stated to CBS news. Middle-class families don’t make enough money to send their children to college without any help from the government. In Michigan, which is another swing state, Gore is in favor because 40 percent of voters come from union households. They like the fact that Gore’s pledge is to “fight for working families.” As for Bush’s $1.6 trillion tax cut promise: Almost half goes to the richest one percent. Bush has nothing to say about making college more affordable for the middle class except that he wants to expand educational savings accounts to $5,000 per year. The election date is ...
