English Proficiency... A Top Priority
The first step to improving education in California is to ensure that all students know how to read and write English proficiently before they are permitted to graduate.  For those entering school without a good, basic grasp of English, we should provide immediate immersion, so that they will become proficient in English at the earliest age possible.

Improving our schools also means cutting waste, and spending our resources wisely.  We should be putting our money into teachers, textbooks, and computers — not a growing bureaucracy.

Quality, Affordable Health Care
Physicians and their patients should be making decisions regarding medical treatment — not HMO’s and government bureaucracies!

If we are to make health care more accessible and affordable we must expand medical IRA’s and increase tax deductions for medical expenses — including health insurance premiums.

Hold the Line on Taxes
We should expand tax deductions for dependents and increase the deductions for medical expenses.  We must also hold the line against new taxes and protect the two-thirds vote requirement implemented by Proposition 13.  Without it, seniors and other homeowners will see property tax rates skyrocket.

Safer Neighborhoods
We need to insist on tough policies to combat street gangs.  Statistics are showing California’s "get tough" approach has been working, but we need to go further.  We should stop the release of dangerous criminals and ensure violent juvenile gang members are punished as adults.