Ian Mackey

Healthcare Health care must be affordable, accessible, and equitable for every Missourian. Environment / Energy Missouri must increase the number of solar farms and continue to modernize our electric grid. Education We have the opportunity, with a record state budget surplus, to establish universal pre-K in our state. Education We must also restructure our school funding formula to more adequately address high need areas, to include transportation spending, and to relieve some of the tax burden felt particularly by seniors in our community. Education And lastly, we must do more to address the school to prison pipeline, by ending the ineffective punitive reactions to challenging behavior. Rather than suspending our youngest students or relying on corporal punishment or seclusion rooms, we should instead invest more in school counselors, social workers, and mental health professionals that can provide support and resources to students and teachers during challenging and stressful times. Education We have the opportunity, with a record state budget surplus, to establish universal pre-K in our state. We must at the least fund the recently established Quality Assurance assessment program to ensure that our state’s preschools and early learning centers are the best they can be. Criminal Justice / Public Safety It’s time that treatment courts for nonviolent offenses be the norm in every jurisdiction in our state. It’s also time to update our criminal statutes pertaining to marijuana use, abolish mandatory minimum sentences, and establish a more fair and rehabilitative process for juvenile offenders. Guns We must do more to keep guns out of the hands of minors, which is why I’ve proposed what should be common sense legislation to require an ID check and age verification at every gun purchase. Abortion / Contraception Women deserve equal access to health care, including abortion, and equal pay in the workplace.