- Has made improving schools and colleges a top priority in Congress.
- Supported successful student aid reform, which reduced student loan interest rates by cutting wasteful subsidies to banks and lending directly to students.
- Increased the number and size of Pell Grant scholarships.
- Wrote the Price Education Affordability Act, which gives parents and students a tax break on their education loans.
- Authored and passed a law to help recruit top-quality teachers, modeled on North Carolina’s successful Teaching Fellows Program.
- Authored the Advanced Technical Education Act, which strengthens high-tech worker training through community and technical colleges.
- Supports common-sense changes in the No Child Left Behind law to improve teacher quality and student performance.