Education is one of Laura’s top priorities. Education is the key to opportunity, and one of the most effective antidotes to poverty. Education is key to developing productive citizens and a skilled workforce.  It fuels the economic engine that maintains California’s position as a leader on the global scale. As an Assemblymember, Laura has stood with our public schools and supported greater transparency and accountability for all schools.  She voted to increase per-pupil funding to record levels, and joined her colleagues in making universal pre-Kindergarten a reality in California.