Increase federal funding and resources to modernize schools, improve educational outcomes, and expand student mental health support.

Advocate for increased federal funding and resources to modernize our schools ... Close the achievement gap ... Increase access to mental health professionals and counselors in our schools.

Commits to more school funding, modernization, achievement-gap reduction, and mental health staffing.

Issues | Figures For Congress
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My mother served on the Mobile City Council ... and has worked to protect women’s rights and improve health and education in Alabama. ... I came home to run for Congress so that I can put my experience to use ... People across the newly formed District 2 deserve to have a leader in Congress who will prioritize them and can effectively fight to get things done.

Campaign materials frame education and community investment as part of Figures' political identity and rationale for running, but do not themselves show fulfillment.

unresolved unknown

Meet Shomari | Figures For Congress
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Sponsor: Rep. Figures, Shomari [D-AL-2] ... Subject — Policy Area: Agriculture and Food ... Sponsor: Rep. Figures, Shomari [D-AL-2] ... Latest Action: House - 05/08/2025 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Workforce ...

Figures introduced legislation to protect federal funding for land-grant colleges and universities, an education-funding action aligned with the promise, but it remained at introduction/referred stage.

partial same_term A for effort

H.R.3281 - To prohibit the reduction, elimination, or suspension of funding for land-grant colleges and universities
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Sponsor: Rep. Figures, Shomari [D-AL-2] ... To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 ... to not terminate or otherwise alter the enrollment status of a student due to a disruption of the student's Federal student financial aid ... caused by a lapse in appropriations. Latest Action: House - 10/28/2025 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

Figures sponsored a bill to protect students from enrollment disruptions tied to federal aid lapses; this is concrete education-related action but not enactment.

partial same_term A for effort

H.R.5850 - GRAD Act
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Official Title as Introduced: Recognizing the continuing disparities in Black youth mental health access and treatment. ... Cosponsors ... Rep. Figures, Shomari [D-AL-2]* 09/23/2025. All Actions ... Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Figures cosponsored a resolution focused on youth mental health access and treatment, showing concrete support for the mental-health portion of the promise, but it did not become law.

partial same_term A for effort

H.Res.764 - Recognizing the continuing disparities in Black youth mental health access and treatment
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