As a product of the Colorado Public School System and father of three school-aged kids, I am dedicated to ensuring all children in Colorado have access to a quality education.

During my time as a Representative, I have passed bills that:

• Provide Free, Full-Day Kindergarten for all families in CO.

• Establish a grant program to increase the number of nurses in our schools.

• Increase our state’s poor immunization rates so that our children can learn in safe school environments without fear of a preventable outbreak.

• Permits Community Colleges to offer a Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree to certain students, helping to address our critical nursing shortage in the wake of the pandemic.

• Proposed additional safety measures and assistance for students at risk of seizures. It calls for seizure action plans to be created for individual students with a seizure disorder, and for schools to implement annual seizure response training for personnel who work with vulnerable students.

• Created a program that allows schools to partner with the Colorado Parks and Wildlife to offer elective hunter's education course (with parental consent).

In the Colorado Senate, I will continue to ensure that our children have every opportunity to succeed by reinvesting in public education, universal preschool, and apprenticeship programs.