CA-25 Candidate Katie Hill on Education Issues

“That Steve Knight is vulnerable to defeat in his re-election campaign is widely known.”

- Santa Clarita Gazette

With the GOP staring down a blue wave in November, the numbers are not working in favor of CA-25’s Steve Knight. While the district was once solidly Republican, Democrats had 3,000 more registered voters in 2016. Hillary Clinton won the district by six points. The Los Angeles Times has declared the race for this seat the second-most competitive in the state.

Facing no other Republicans in the jungle primary, Knight could have tried to better reflect his constituents. Instead, he voted for Obamacare to be repealed. He also supported an early version of the GOP tax plan despite the fact that it phased “out the ability to deduct personal casualty losses from wildfires and earthquakes… but [kept] the deduction for damage from hurricanes and floods”. He co-sponsored the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act which “would allow any person with a concealed carry permit from one state to carry their weapon in any other state.”

Knight’s campaign was presented with three questions about federal education policy but did not send a response. His opponent in the November election did respond and her answers are as follows:

No Child Left Behind and the Every Student Succeeds Act both increased reliance on standardized testing within our classrooms. Do you support the…