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Education has been part of the standard peroration of The Donald’s speeches for a while. He even says things like “Choice – what a beautiful word.” His pledge to get rid of Common Core is a big applause line. He wants every disadvantaged (I know, why stop there) child to be able to go to the public, private, charter, magnet or…school of their choice. Education is part of his (quixotic?) outreach to minorities.
Indeed, didn’t he make a big speech a while ago about block granting Federal education money and using the bully pulpit to push for school choice?
Other than that, good article.
Trump is all about making the Federal Government “work” through his superior management. He’s never talked about taking power away from the Federal Government in any context, AFAIK. His entire leifmotif has been that the only thing wrong with the Federal Government is the occupant of the White House. Government power is what makes America great as long as that power is wielded by a great man.
If he was to talk about education, it would go no further than, “We’re going to hire the best people, just the best, and you’ll start to see really tremendous education in this country, believe me. Really, just tremendous. Ask anybody. They’ll tell you that I know more about education than anybody.”
Trump talks of choice, but it’s not clear he knows what that means, nor that he knows it’s a state responsibility. He opposes common core but the same comment. There is nothing I’d like to hear more from him than he’ll abolish the DOE and end the Federal role in public education. Trump doesn’t make it easy on we who feel compelled to vote against Hillary. He does better on this topic than on most.
The questions I really want to see put to Trump, maybe in the next debate: What is common core, exactly? What is a charter school? How does it differ from a magnet school? What would you do about the Aleppo situation? What foreign leaders, besides Putin, do you admire? You get the idea…
From here:
You may not like it. You may not believe it represents the life-long aspirations of DJT. But it’s not nothing.