Here is the response from Tom Schieffer's campaign:
Tom Schieffer has been addressing these same issues for months. Improving public education has been his No. 1 priority from the beginning of his campaign. He was talking about attacking high dropout rates and expanding early childhood education when Hank Gilbert was still talking about running for agriculture commissioner.
I have heard some others say that Tom considers Education a signature issue as well.
That however, makes me wonder why all his website has to offer on the subject is this paragraph:
Our children are competing against the best and the brightest in the world. We have to have a new educational paradigm, one that recognizes that we need to begin educating children before they are five years old and long after they graduate from high school and college. We cannot give up on public education. It is still the ladder up and out for millions of young Texans, and we must find a way to make it work.
Talking about it for months, and that's all we get?
