Debates over education in 2024 campaign likely to be fought more on ideological than policy grounds
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As governor, one of his catchphrases has been to “fully fund” public schools. To that end, last year, he pushed for aVance, by contrast, has echoed much of Trump’s rhetoric on education. On the website for his 2022 U.S. Senate campaign, for example, he lashed out at “the continued CRT indoctrination in our kids’ schools.” He also took aim at what he called the “radical left’s culture war waged during Covid-19” in closing public schools during the pandemic.of colleges and universities.
In Philadelphia, Walz shared that not only was his father a teacher, but that he and his three siblings “followed in his footsteps.” He, like two of his three siblings, married a teacher. His wife, Gwen, has been a “public educator” for 29 years. “Don’t ever underestimate teachers,” Walz told the crowd amid cheers.“As the saying goes, personnel is policy, and at the end of the day, if we have pink-haired communists teaching our kids, we have a major problem,” Trump said.
It is impossible to predict just how large a role issues like these will play in the remaining 90 days of this accelerated campaign. But what is clear is that any battles around education will be waged on ideological grounds, rather than on the best policies to improve public education, and, most importantly, what is needed to ensure that all students succeed.
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