Candidate for Tennessee House of Representatives - District 17 in 2020 Tennessee General Election.
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Get StartedAs a teacher who has worked in two different schools where school shootings have occurred, Delynn has first-hand experience with the school violence epidemic we face – noting that often nothing gets done. Funding has to be the first piece of the puzzle so Delynn has suggested that the Tennessee Lottery dedicate a game, solely for the purpose of making significant safety upgrades to our schools and partially subsidizing the salaries of school safety officers until local school districts can afford to absorb the extra costs. Learn more
It is time to quit wasting money on high stakes testing that provide nothing but misery. Wasting over $30 million on unusable scores is a government spending fiasco that we MUST fix. Time to replace special interests with the interests of students, parents, and local districts. Learn more
District 17 is rapidly becoming a popular place to retire. We must plan ahead for an aging population that will soon need specialized healthcare support. We also need to look again at the expansion of Medicaid. Failure to expand Medicaid has left billions on the table that would have increased access to health care, addressed the opioid epidemic, and kept rural hospitals in Tennessee open. Learn more
The exodus of our best and brightest minds continues year after year. Once educated by us, they leave because we lack employment opportunities for them. We must do better at forming partnerships and courting higher wage jobs to keep families together and to reap the rewards of our education investments in our youth. We also need to form public-private partnerships to provide decent housing options for our younger citizens. Learn more
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