Education
Immediately add an additional federal investment of $20 billion towards school choice. This will be done by reprioritizing existing federal dollars.
Give states the option to allow these funds to follow the student to the public or private school they attend. Distribution of this grant will favor states that have private school choice, magnet schools and charter laws, encouraging them to participate.
Establish the national goal of providing school choice to every one of the 11 million school aged children living in poverty.
If the states collectively contribute another $110 billion of their own education budgets toward school choice, on top of the $20 billion in federal dollars, that could provide $12,000 in school choice funds to every K-12 student who today lives in poverty.
Work with Congress on reforms to ensure universities are making a good faith effort to reduce the cost of college and student debt in exchange for the federal tax breaks and tax dollars.
Ensure that the opportunity to attend a two or four-year college, or to pursue a trade or a skill set through vocational and technical education, will be easier to access, pay for, and finish.
KEY ISSUES
At the state and federal level, the United States spends more than $620 billion on K-12 education each year. That’s an average of about $12,296 for every student enrolled in our elementary and secondary public schools.
We spend more per student than almost any other major country in the world. Yet, our students perform near the bottom of the pack for major large advanced countries.
Our students continue to lag behind their peers worldwide in knowledge gained. [American Federation for Children Growth Fund]
Among 34 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development nations, the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) found 27 countries outperformed U.S students in math. [National Center for Education Statistics]
The same assessment found 17 countries outperformed U.S. students in reading. [National Center for Education Statistics]
Our largest cities spend some of the largest amounts of money on public schools:
New York City spends $20,226 per student.
Baltimore spends $15,287 per student.
Chicago spends $11,976 per student.
Los Angeles spends $10,602 per student.
According to the National Assessment of Education Progress, only one in six African-American students in the eighth grade are considered proficient in math and reading. In 2016, over 2 million high school graduates took the ACT:
45 percent of all students tested met three or more benchmarks related to college preparedness.
Only 11 percent of African American students tested met three or more of the benchmarks for college and career readiness. [The Condition of College and Career Readiness, 2016]
Right now, about $1.9 billion is spent on 50 private school choice programs nationwide. These are opportunity scholarships, tax credits, and education savings accounts. This covers about 400,000 students in our country.
CONTRAST WITH HILLARY CLINTON
Hillary opposes private school choice – In fact, in a 2006 interview Hillary claimed that vouchers would eventually lead to the creation of taxpayer-financed white supremacist academies – or even a government-funded ‘school of the jihad. [Newsday, Feb. 22, 2006]
Hillary Clinton claims my school choice proposal would “decimate public schools across America.”
It is no surprise Mrs. Clinton opposes school choice because she is supported by the staunchest opponents of school choice – The American Federation of Teachers super PAC – which donated $1.6 million to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation and more than $2 million to Hillary’s 2016 presidential campaign. [Wall Street Journal, June 28, 2016]
Hillary has demonstrated inconsistent support for public school choice too. Soon after the Unions endorsed her Mrs. Clinton began repeating union misinformation: “Most charter schools, they don’t take the hardest-to-teach kids and don’t serve all students, unlike traditional public schools. [Education Week]
Immediately add an additional federal investment of $20 billion towards school choice. This will be done by reprioritizing existing federal dollars.
Give states the option to allow these funds to follow the student to the public or private school they attend. Distribution of this grant will favor states that have private school choice, magnet schools and charter laws, encouraging them to participate.
Establish the national goal of providing school choice to every one of the 11 million school aged children living in poverty.
If the states collectively contribute another $110 billion of their own education budgets toward school choice, on top of the $20 billion in federal dollars, that could provide $12,000 in school choice funds to every K-12 student who today lives in poverty.
Work with Congress on reforms to ensure universities are making a good faith effort to reduce the cost of college and student debt in exchange for the federal tax breaks and tax dollars.
Ensure that the opportunity to attend a two or four-year college, or to pursue a trade or a skill set through vocational and technical education, will be easier to access, pay for, and finish.
KEY ISSUES
At the state and federal level, the United States spends more than $620 billion on K-12 education each year. That’s an average of about $12,296 for every student enrolled in our elementary and secondary public schools.
We spend more per student than almost any other major country in the world. Yet, our students perform near the bottom of the pack for major large advanced countries.
Our students continue to lag behind their peers worldwide in knowledge gained. [American Federation for Children Growth Fund]
Among 34 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development nations, the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) found 27 countries outperformed U.S students in math. [National Center for Education Statistics]
The same assessment found 17 countries outperformed U.S. students in reading. [National Center for Education Statistics]
Our largest cities spend some of the largest amounts of money on public schools:
New York City spends $20,226 per student.
Baltimore spends $15,287 per student.
Chicago spends $11,976 per student.
Los Angeles spends $10,602 per student.
According to the National Assessment of Education Progress, only one in six African-American students in the eighth grade are considered proficient in math and reading. In 2016, over 2 million high school graduates took the ACT:
45 percent of all students tested met three or more benchmarks related to college preparedness.
Only 11 percent of African American students tested met three or more of the benchmarks for college and career readiness. [The Condition of College and Career Readiness, 2016]
Right now, about $1.9 billion is spent on 50 private school choice programs nationwide. These are opportunity scholarships, tax credits, and education savings accounts. This covers about 400,000 students in our country.
CONTRAST WITH HILLARY CLINTON
Hillary opposes private school choice – In fact, in a 2006 interview Hillary claimed that vouchers would eventually lead to the creation of taxpayer-financed white supremacist academies – or even a government-funded ‘school of the jihad. [Newsday, Feb. 22, 2006]
Hillary Clinton claims my school choice proposal would “decimate public schools across America.”
It is no surprise Mrs. Clinton opposes school choice because she is supported by the staunchest opponents of school choice – The American Federation of Teachers super PAC – which donated $1.6 million to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation and more than $2 million to Hillary’s 2016 presidential campaign. [Wall Street Journal, June 28, 2016]
Hillary has demonstrated inconsistent support for public school choice too. Soon after the Unions endorsed her Mrs. Clinton began repeating union misinformation: “Most charter schools, they don’t take the hardest-to-teach kids and don’t serve all students, unlike traditional public schools. [Education Week]
