Introduction

Hi! My name is Rachel Kaplan and I’m a freshman at Occidental College in Los Angeles. This blog is meant to be about the public education policy of the federal government.

I have always been really interested in education and I have formed my liberal views through being a student in both the public and private education systems as well as through working with students in underprivileged neighborhoods, which helped me to see the differences in our educations. Working in a third grade classroom in Marin City, where the students were not up to grade level, I realized that if teachers are forced to teach to the test to keep their funding, then these students do not get the help they really need and school is no longer really about true education.

I will be following the current public education policy as we see together what the Obama administration and the new Congress will do.