Education Week: School choice advocates are waffling between excitement for potentially unprecedented new opportunities under a Donald Trump administration, and concern that the president-elect could also dramatically undermine the school choice movement.
Trump's promise on the campaign trail to spend $20 billion on school vouchers for low-income students could herald a massive expansion of school choice—especially with his selection of an ardent school choice activist as his new education secretary. But the election's polarizing outcome and Trump's comments on race could also prove corrosive to the school choice movement's increasingly tenuous claim to bipartisan support—in particular for charter schools.
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