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💡This is part of an ongoing series I'm working on called "Mandate '28."Universal EducationEducation must provide real-world value to our children and our civics. Of course math, history, science, arts, and athletics are a must. But we must also teach the basics of budgeting and economic sovereignty. We must instill the ethics of good and responsible use of technology. We must impart a love of reading and media literacy. Provide our kids with the opportunity to explore creative expression through the arts. We must impress the urgency of civic engagement, our innate duty to our neighbors, and imbue our children with an encompassing knowledge of our system of government.And, most importantly, we must realize how desperately we cannot afford for inequality on this front.Legislators must work to establish a centralized system of equal education funding. We must no longer allow for the continued, intentional erosion of learning and the disparity of opportunity that arises from unequal…

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