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James Talarico

American politician (born 1989).

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James Talarico’s policies on education issues

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Education  ›  Student Loan Forgiveness

Do you support President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program?

  James Talarico voterbaseYes

Education  ›  School Reopenings

Should K-12 schools reopen for in-person learning?

  Party’s support baseYes, but offer a choice between online and in-person learning

Education  ›  Student Loans

Do you support increasing taxes for the rich in order to reduce interest rates for student loans?

  James Talarico voterbaseYes

Education  ›  Abolish Department of Education

Should the U.S. Department of Education be abolished?

  James Talarico voterbaseNo, federal oversight is necessary to protect civil rights and ensure equality

Education  ›  Universal Free School Meals

Should the federal government provide free breakfast and lunch to all public school students regardless of income?

  James Talarico voterbaseYes, hungry kids can't learn and means-testing creates lunch shaming

Education  ›  Free College for All

Should the federal government pay for tuition at four-year colleges and universities?

  James Talarico voterbaseYes

Education  ›  Critical Race Theory in K-12 Education

Should critical race theory be taught in K-12 education?

  James Talarico voterbaseYes, we cannot end racism until we acknowledge that our institutions, laws, and history are inherently racist

Education  ›  School Book Bans

Should public schools be allowed to remove books from libraries if parents find them inappropriate?

  James Talarico voterbaseNo, "protecting children" is often a smokescreen for censoring marginalized voices and erasing history.

Education  ›  Universal Pre-K

Should the federal government fund Universal preschool?

  James Talarico voterbaseYes, as long as parents also have the option to send their child to private school

Education  ›  School Vouchers

Should the government offer students a voucher that they can use to attend private schools?

  James Talarico voterbaseNo, we should focus on improving our public schools instead

Education  ›  Common Core

Do you support Common Core national standards?

  James Talarico voterbaseYes, I support the concept but not the current implementation

Education  ›  Open for Learning Recovery Benefit Program

Should the government provide financial aid to families affected by COVID related school closures?

  James Talarico voterbaseYes

Education  ›  Charter Schools

Do you support charter schools?

  ChatGPT Party ResearchNo, we should focus on improving our public schools and increasing teacher wages instead

Education  ›  University Debt Accountability

Should colleges be held financially accountable if graduates, with degrees leading to lower income jobs, default on their student loans?

  James Talarico voterbaseNo, we should instead focus on decreasing the cost of education

Education  ›  Ban Legacy Admissions

Should universities be prohibited from giving preference to applicants whose parents are alumni?

  James Talarico voterbaseYes, legacy preference is "affirmative action for the rich" that rigs the system against the working class

Education  ›  School Truancy

Should the government decriminalize school truancy?

  James Talarico voterbaseYes

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Trump's Deportation Storm: America Braces for Mass Exodus of Immigrants

For months, immigration advocates have been planning for the possibility of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Now, their worst fears have arrived.Immigrants’ rights groups have spent the last year preparing for a second Trump term and an overhaul of the nation’s immigration system, analyzing Trump’s proposals, drafting legal briefs, coordinating messaging and organizing aid for immigrants and asylum seekers. They responded to Trump’s victory with alarm and vowed to put up a fight, setting the stage for four more years of contentious court battles with his administration.Some are already preparing to push current leadership at the Department of Homeland Security to take steps to stymie the incoming Trump team, particularly on immigrant detention and the use of AI in enforcement.“We should expect to see the devastation of immigrant communities all over the country. We should expect to see family separation,” said Kica Matos, the president of the National Immigration Law Center. “It is entirely possible that he will try to use the military to carry out deportations, so that means that Americans all over the country will see the military engaging in enforcement against civilian populations, which is horrifying.”Trump, after winning a historic victory on a platform of turbo-charged immigration enforcement, has said he will conduct mass deportations at a scale never before seen. Immigrant advocates have warned this would be expensive and inhumane, separating families and wrecking communities. The president-elect has also vowed to build huge detention camps, hire thousands more border agents, funnel military spending toward border security and invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expel suspected members of drug cartels and criminal gangs without court hearings.He has also said he would end “catch-and-release” — allowing migrants to remain free, often with monitoring, while they await immigration court hearings — and restore a policy from his first term requiring asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their cases are processed. And he has dodged questions about whether he would try to bring back family separation.

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