Democratic · U.S. Senate · MT
Schools & education✓ Keep federal education dollars in public schools: defend Title I funding for the schools serving Montana’s highest-need kids, and oppose federal voucher and tax-credit schemes that route public money to private schools with no accountability to the families paying for it.
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✓ Keep federal education dollars in public schools: defend Title I funding for the schools serving Montana’s highest-need kids, and oppose federal voucher and tax-credit schemes that route public money to private schools with no accountability to the families paying for it.
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Schools & education✓ Invest in infrastructure to replace crumbling schools.
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✓ Invest in infrastructure to replace crumbling schools.
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Alani Bankhead — candidate-owned primary source 2 ↗ Schools & education✓ Catch disabilities early, and get the assessment right. Fund IDEA Part C early intervention so kids are identified before they fall behind, require culturally and linguistically valid evaluation so no child is mislabeled, and meet the federal government’s direct obligation to Bureau of Indian Educ…
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✓ Catch disabilities early, and get the assessment right. Fund IDEA Part C early intervention so kids are identified before they fall behind, require culturally and linguistically valid evaluation so no child is mislabeled, and meet the federal government’s direct obligation to Bureau of Indian Education schools.
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Alani Bankhead — candidate-owned primary source 2 ↗ Schools & education✓ Defend Section 504 and the ADA in schools, and oppose Montana’s participation in the multistate lawsuit against Section 504.
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✓ Defend Section 504 and the ADA in schools, and oppose Montana’s participation in the multistate lawsuit against Section 504.
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Alani Bankhead — candidate-owned primary source 2 ↗ Schools & education✓ Protect the federal funding underneath Indian Education for All: Title VI Indian Education, Johnson-O’Malley, and Impact Aid for districts serving reservation communities.
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✓ Protect the federal funding underneath Indian Education for All: Title VI Indian Education, Johnson-O’Malley, and Impact Aid for districts serving reservation communities.
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Alani Bankhead — candidate-owned primary source 2 ↗ Schools & education✓ Fund multiple pathways: college, vo-tech, and small-business ownership.
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✓ Fund multiple pathways: college, vo-tech, and small-business ownership.
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Alani Bankhead — candidate-owned primary source 2 ↗ Schools & education✓ Keep politics out of medicine: honest medical guidance free of ideology, in what schools teach and what insurance covers.
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✓ Keep politics out of medicine: honest medical guidance free of ideology, in what schools teach and what insurance covers.
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Alani Bankhead — candidate-owned primary source 2 ↗ Schools & education✓ Close the services cliff at 21, so young people aging out of school services are not left with nowhere to land.
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✓ Close the services cliff at 21, so young people aging out of school services are not left with nowhere to land.
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Alani Bankhead — candidate-owned primary source 2 ↗ Schools & education✓ Invest in American leadership in AI, quantum computing, and biotechnology through public research, our universities, and the people who power it, and keep us ahead of our adversaries.
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✓ Invest in American leadership in AI, quantum computing, and biotechnology through public research, our universities, and the people who power it, and keep us ahead of our adversaries.
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Alani Bankhead — candidate-owned primary source 2 ↗ Schools & education✓ Protect the Medicaid dollars that pay for school services. Montana schools and cooperatives bill Medicaid for the speech, occupational and physical therapy, school psychologist, audiology and personal-care paraprofessional services written into a child’s IEP. A Medicaid cut is a special-education …
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✓ Protect the Medicaid dollars that pay for school services. Montana schools and cooperatives bill Medicaid for the speech, occupational and physical therapy, school psychologist, audiology and personal-care paraprofessional services written into a child’s IEP. A Medicaid cut is a special-education cut, and it lands hardest on the rural districts that already share those staff.
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Alani Bankhead — candidate-owned primary source 2 ↗ Schools & education✓ Rebuild the staffing pipeline with the federal levers that already exist: IDEA Part D personnel preparation grants, Title II-A, TEACH Grants, and Teacher Quality Partnership grants, so districts can hire and keep special-education teachers and paraeducators.
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✓ Rebuild the staffing pipeline with the federal levers that already exist: IDEA Part D personnel preparation grants, Title II-A, TEACH Grants, and Teacher Quality Partnership grants, so districts can hire and keep special-education teachers and paraeducators.
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Alani Bankhead — candidate-owned primary source 2 ↗ Schools & education✓ Back an independent investigation into the strikes on civilians, including the Minab girls’ school, and support holding those who ordered them accountable, including through the International Criminal Court.
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✓ Back an independent investigation into the strikes on civilians, including the Minab girls’ school, and support holding those who ordered them accountable, including through the International Criminal Court.
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Alani Bankhead — candidate-owned primary source 2 ↗ Schools & education✓ Reopen the gutted civil-rights offices: the EEOC for workplace discrimination and the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights for students, so a complaint gets a real answer.
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✓ Reopen the gutted civil-rights offices: the EEOC for workplace discrimination and the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights for students, so a complaint gets a real answer.
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Alani Bankhead — candidate-owned primary source 2 ↗ Schools & education✓ Fix the shortage at its root — loan forgiveness for providers who serve rural and tribal Montana, and take on the runaway cost of a medical education that keeps the pipeline too small.
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✓ Fix the shortage at its root — loan forgiveness for providers who serve rural and tribal Montana, and take on the runaway cost of a medical education that keeps the pipeline too small.
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Alani Bankhead — candidate-owned primary source 2 ↗ Schools & education✓ Back the IDEA Full Funding Act (Washington promised 40% of special-ed costs and pays about 13%), make Secure Rural Schools funding permanent, and expand Workforce Pell for vo-tech and the trades.
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✓ Back the IDEA Full Funding Act (Washington promised 40% of special-ed costs and pays about 13%), make Secure Rural Schools funding permanent, and expand Workforce Pell for vo-tech and the trades.
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Alani Bankhead — candidate-owned primary source 2 ↗ Schools & education✓ Keep federal education dollars in public schools, where students with disabilities keep their IDEA and Section 504 protections, instead of routing public money to private schools with no accountability to the families paying for it.
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✓ Keep federal education dollars in public schools, where students with disabilities keep their IDEA and Section 504 protections, instead of routing public money to private schools with no accountability to the families paying for it.
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Alani Bankhead — candidate-owned primary source 2 ↗ Schools & education✓ Grow our own doctors: wipe out medical-school debt for those who serve rural Montana, and lift the frozen cap on residency slots.
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✓ Grow our own doctors: wipe out medical-school debt for those who serve rural Montana, and lift the frozen cap on residency slots.
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Alani Bankhead — candidate-owned primary source 2 ↗ Schools & education✓ Rebuild the teacher pipeline. Montana has a statewide teacher shortage, and the federal levers are real: Title II-A, TEACH Grants, and Teacher Quality Partnership grants that pay for teacher preparation and put mentors in front of new teachers so they make it past year three.
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✓ Rebuild the teacher pipeline. Montana has a statewide teacher shortage, and the federal levers are real: Title II-A, TEACH Grants, and Teacher Quality Partnership grants that pay for teacher preparation and put mentors in front of new teachers so they make it past year three.
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Alani Bankhead — candidate-owned primary source 2 ↗ Schools & education✓ Build a Montana tech economy on our university research and clean power, so the jobs and the value stay here.
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✓ Build a Montana tech economy on our university research and clean power, so the jobs and the value stay here.
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Alani Bankhead — candidate-owned primary source 2 ↗ Schools & education✓ Rebuild the DOJ Civil Rights Division: fully staff the lawyers who enforce the anti-discrimination laws again, in jobs, housing, lending, schools, and at the ballot box.
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✓ Rebuild the DOJ Civil Rights Division: fully staff the lawyers who enforce the anti-discrimination laws again, in jobs, housing, lending, schools, and at the ballot box.
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Alani Bankhead — candidate-owned primary source 2 ↗ Schools & education✓ Require enforceable community benefit agreements as a condition of federal support: a real share into local schools, research, and nonprofits, and no leaving Montana dotted with empty warehouses after barely a decade.
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✓ Require enforceable community benefit agreements as a condition of federal support: a real share into local schools, research, and nonprofits, and no leaving Montana dotted with empty warehouses after barely a decade.
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