MAKING SURE MINNESOTA SCHOOLS GET THEIR FAIR SHARE
Federal Education Funding Before Additional Tax Breaks for the Wealthy. Paul is fighting to put $2 billion over ten years into Minnesota's schools - where it belongs. Paul knows that educating Minnesota's kids should come before tax breaks for large multi-national corporations and the wealthiest 1% of taxpayers (people making more than $300,000 a year). The clear choice is to eliminate planned tax breaks for the wealthy and put that money into education. This increased funding would allow local schools to hire additional teachers, reduce class-size, modernize public buildings, buy more books and computers, early childhood education and increase parental involvement.
Honor the promise. Paul has proposed a bold plan to help address the fiscal crisis in Minnesota education. The Wellstone Fair Share for Education Plan would honor the federal promise to pay for its share of special education by putting $2 billion into Minnesota K-12 schools to benefit all students over the next 10 years.
Providing Funding to Hire Teachers, School Construction, and After-School Programs. Paul voted for a legislative amendment that would have authorized funding for specific educational purposes, including hiring new teachers, building and repairing schools, and running after school programs.

REDUCING CLASS-SIZE
Increasing funding for class-size reduction. Paul voted for an amendment that would have required $1.4 billion to be spent on the class-size reduction program; it would add an extra $350 million that would have to be spent on that program.
100,000 New Teachers Should be Hired to Reduce Class Size. Paul voted in favor of an amendment stating, "Congress should support efforts to hire 100,000 new teachers to reduce class sizes in first, second, and third grades to an average of 18 students per class all across America."

RECRUITING, RETAINING AND TRAINING TEACHERS
Cosponsored Measure With Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison to Recruit and Train Teachers. Working in conjunction with conservative Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, Paul introduced a measure that provides $250 million in grants and scholarships to recruit and train teachers in high-need districts. It was passed by the Senate as part of the Education Reform Bill of 2001.
Providing Teacher Incentives for Well-Performing Schools. Paul voted for an amendment allowing Teacher Empowerment Act funds to be used to implement programs that: reward teachers in schools with improvement in student achievement, help teachers acquire advanced degrees in the subjects they teach, implement rigorous peer review, evaluation, and recertification programs, and provide incentives for highly qualified teachers to teach in needy schools.

HOLDING SCHOOLS ACCOUNTABLE
Increasing Accountability Requirements for Schools. Paul voted for an amendment which increased accountability requirements for schools and provided a teacher liability protection (Teachers' Bill of Rights).

PROVIDING A QUALITY EDUCATION FOR ALL
Increasing Funding For Special Education. Paul cosponsored a measure that provided full funding for special education. The measure was added to the Education Reform Bill in the Senate last year but was ultimately knocked out of the final bill by the Republican White House and Republican House Leadership.