Barack Obama -- Senator Barack Obama says that teachers lack the resources to educate their students. He said that the teachers could do an awesome job educating our children if the teachers are paid a good salary and provided with necessary tools. He promises to increase the amount of salary that is being paid to them. Senator Obama plans to continue the current "No Child Left Behind" policy, although he believes that the law significant flaws, which must be corrected.

Hillary Clinton-- When TFK asked if Senator Hillary Clinton intends to continue President Bush's No Child Left behind policy and if she has any plans for improving it, this is how she responded. "While I firmly believe in the goals of the No Child Left behind Act, the under-funding of this crucial law makes it very hard for teachers and schools to reach the goals. In 2008 alone, President Bush proposed $15 billion less than what is promised in the law."

Mike Huckabee-- As governor of Arkansas, he introduced Smart Start, the first of several major reform efforts in Arkansas that were to focus on not only increasing funding but, more important, improved results. The plan affected the state's curriculum from pre-K through college so that there was coordination and continuity throughout the educational process. Huckabee sees at least 5 elements essential to improving schools:

1. Mark the standards--with challenging goals

2. Measure the progress--like with No Child Left Behind

3. Meet the expectations--there must be accountability

4. Mobilize the community

5. Move the potential

John McCain-- While No Child Left Behind targets the structure of education, it does not address the underlying cultural problems in our education system--a system that still seeks to avoid genuine accountability and responsibility for producing well-educated children. We must place parents and children at the center of the education process, empowering parents by greatly expanding the ability of parents to choose among schools for their children. All federal financial support must be predicated on providing parents the ability to move their children, and the dollars associated with them, from failing schools.

Mitt Romney-- When Gov. Mitt Romney was asked if he intends to continue President Bush's No Child Left Behind policy and if he has any plans for improving the system, he said: "I support the goals of No Child Left Behind and believe strongly in stressing with accountability both for our students and schools. I also believe however that some improvements need to be made in the law."

Barack Obama-- Senator Obama says that we are the greatest country in the world but when it comes to child health care we must do better! Health care prices are unaffordable. Over the past sixteen years, wages rose four times higher. The United States spends an ocean of money on health care every year. Yet, the prices for medical technology have increased every year, to a rate that many people with careers can't afford. Every year, about 100,000 Americans die from medical complications. Senator Obama wants to make sure that all American children have health insurance when he becomes president.

Hillary Clinton-- When Senator Clinton was asked if she has a plan that will address health care coverage for the children that are uninsured and here is what we got: "I was proud to help create the Children's Health Insurance Program when I was First Lady so this is an issue that is near and dear to my heart. Recently, I released my American Health Choices Plan, a plan to insure health coverage for all Americans."

Mike Huckabee-- The health care system in this country is irrevocably broken, in part because it is only a "health care" system, not a "health" system. We don't need universal health care mandated by federal edict or funded through ever-higher taxes. We do need to get serious about preventive health care instead of chasing more and more dollars to treat chronic disease, which currently gobbles up 80% of our health care costs, and yet is often avoidable. The result is that we'll be able to deliver better care where and when it's needed.

John McCain-- The problem with American health care is not one of quality, but one of cost. I have proposed a health care plan that addresses the escalating cost of health care to ensure more American families can afford access to the finest health care system in the world. I know the answer is not to increase the amount of bureaucracy through a government-controlled health care or single-payer system. The answer is... affordable and portable insurance options for as many Americans as possible and to help those without insurance to access the health care system with the dignity and quality care that all Americans expect and deserve.

Mitt Romney-- Responding to a question involving the SCHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Plan) program and how he will address the tons of children who are uninsured, Gov. Romney says: "The Democrat SCHIP expansion bill would take children out of private insurance and put them into government insurance. It was a flawed approach. The right course is to get all children and all citizens insured with private, market-based health insurance."