The 2024 choice on education: Trump sides with families, Harris with...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : Trump, to be clear, is a longtime school-choice fan:
64% : That's a shift for the worse, incidentally: To his great credit, President Barack Obama supported choice in the form of public charter schools, despite bitter union opposition.
54% : Schools, especially public schools, shouldn't be a jobs program for adults, but that's how the unions and the Democrats see them.
51% : Of course, it wasn't just the feds: Teacher unions are also a huge political force in many states and cities -- and union power was the main factor determining how long public schools stayed closed all across America.
47% : From the 2019-20 school year to 2021-2, US public-school enrollment fell from 50.8 million to 49.4 million -- even though that includes public charter schools, which saw an increase.
47% : And in states like New York, teacher-union power stops charter schools from growing to meet the demand for public schools that work because the unions don't control them.
46% : Strong supporters of public education in the abstract saw how badly it served their own children, as so many teachers didn't even try to actually teach online.
44% : Not that Trump means to end federal support for education: Indeed, he's come out for the Educational Choice for Children Act, a bill to set up a nationwide school-choice plan that would be neither run nor regulated by the federal DOE.
42% : The unions and their allies insist school choice will destroy public education, but the reverse is true: It's the best hope to save the public schools, by forcing them to up their game to compete with other options.
25% : For decades, that alliance has gotten away with pretending to care about the children -- but now the mask is off. Voters' choice on education is clear: Trump wants change for the better; Harris is just a tool of the failed status quo.

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