America’s future is sitting at a desk while hedge-fund charters siphon public money, teachers run DoorDash shifts to pay rent, and student-loan debt has blown past $1.7 trillion. In Prince George’s County hundreds of classrooms still lack full-time teachers, and some schools heat with boilers installed when vinyl was new. Education should free kids, keep them safe and healthy, support their dreams, and never bankrupt a family or fatten a Wall Street ledger.

The plan

1. Public dollars for public schools

   • Triple Title I and IDEA funding, steer every new federal education dollar to public districts, and freeze for-profit charters out of the pipeline.

   • Full federal audits for any charter that touches tax money; misspend it, lose it.

2. Universal early childhood

   • Free, high-quality pre-K for every three- and four-year-old, plus year-round childcare that costs families no more than 7 percent of income.

3. Pay and protect educators

   • Set a $60,000 national floor for teacher salaries, indexed to inflation.

   • Make threats or doxxing of school staff a federal felony and guarantee collective-bargaining rights in every state.

4. Debt-free paths after high school

   • Cancel existing federal student loans.

   • Tuition-free public colleges, HBCUs, tribal colleges, and trade schools funded by a Wall Street speculation tax.

   • Double Pell Grants until tuition goes to zero.

5. University freedom & student rights

   • Ban political loyalty pledges for federal research funds and block ICE raids on campuses.

   • Restore DACA and protect international students so ideas, not fear, roam our quads.

6. Community schools, modern buildings

   • Fund a nurse, counselor, and librarian in every public school.

   • Launch a Green Schools Corps to retrofit HVAC, solar roofs, and lead-free pipes. Clean air is not optional equipment.

How we pay

• Restore the estate tax on inherited wealth over $10 million.

• Close the private-school tuition deduction loophole.

• End subsidies for for-profit colleges that defraud students.

• Phase out carried interest tax breaks for private equity in the education sector.

• Wealth Reclaim Pillar: Education, this pillar of the Wealth Reclamation Tax will also be funded by a 0.5% tax on Wall Street transactions — reclaiming wealth from unchecked speculation and reinvesting it in the people and communities it was extracted from.

Our children deserve nothing less than a world-class education that empowers them, not burdens them.

It’s time to invest in minds, not profits.