Trump Could Scrap Education Dept., Up School Choice and Boost Education for All; Post-COVID, Families Overwhelmingly Want School Choice — Yet Dems Keep Blocking it

Trump could scrap Education Dept., up school choice and boost education for all:

On the campaign trail this month, former President Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to “close the federal Department of Education” and expand school choice — a wildly popular concept that cuts across party lines, new polling shows.

Good news: If he wins the White House again, he can do both.

The federal Department of Education is an unconstitutional waste of time and money.

Its very existence arguably violates the Tenth Amendment: The word “education” appears nowhere in the Constitution.

The federal government has spent well over a trillion dollars on K-12 education since the department’s inception, while failing to improve student performance.

It was created in 1980, at the tail end of President Jimmy Carter’s single term in office, as a payoff to the nation’s largest teachers’ union after it endorsed his unsuccessful re-election bid.

Trump wants no part of it.

“I’m going to take the Department of Education, close it in Washington,” he said at a September rally in Pennsylvania.

“Let the states run their own education.”

He makes a good point.

The federal government could send the department’s budget back to the states so they can have more education funding to spend as they see fit.

That would allow for more local control — and less wasteful spending on useless bureaucrats in Washington.

But if Trump dismantled the federal education bureaucracy, could he also fulfill his separate commitment to unleash school choice?

Yes — and here’s how. —>READ MORE HERE

Post-COVID, families overwhelmingly want school choice — yet Dems keep blocking it:

A new poll proves it: Americans, in stunning numbers, want their tax dollars used for schools they select.

That includes private schools, not just the government-run monopolies that have let down so many kids — particularly during the pandemic.

As The Post reported last week, a Center Square survey conducted by Noble Predictive Insights found a full 69% of likely voters back a federal tax credit to let kids attend a school of their choice; just 20% say they should attend the schools they’re assigned.

This wasn’t just Republicans: More than six in 10 Democrats back a federal school-choice program.

Independents, too, overwhelmingly back the market competition that school choice facilitates: Fully 60% favor it.

Alas, Democratic leaders don’t care about voters, even those who vote for them: They routinely oppose voucher and tax-credit programs, parroting the teacher-union lie that using taxpayer funds for private schools leaves public schools short — and that public schools matter most.

Wrong. Taxpayers want their money to buy the best education for their kids, whether from government bureaucrats, private businesses or nonprofits.

“What people ultimately want is for schools to work,” says NPI’s David Byler.

Besides, when traditional schools lose students, their smaller enrollments should lower costs.

And research shows competition actually spurs all schools to improve.

Clearly, the pandemic opened eyes: Before that, parents had no idea just how bad some public schools were — or how the teachers unions catered more to members than students. —>READ MORE HERE

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