CV NEWS FEED // Former President Donald Trump announced that if elected in November, he would support universal school choice as well as comprehensive tax credits for families who homeschool their children.
“I will support a policy of universal school choice,” Trump said while speaking at the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) Convention, in Nashville, TN, Thursday night.
The Republican frontrunner indicated he would allow “parents to choose the public, private, charter, or religious school that best suits their children.”
Trump stated that he would “support America’s homeschool families including allowing 529 Education Savings Accounts [ESAs] to be used for homeschooling expenses up to $10,000 a year per child completely tax free.”
He intends to “close the federal Department of Education, and … move everything back to the states where it belongs.”
Furthermore, Trump emphasized that he would make it a “top priority” to “take back our education system from the communists and the freaks that are destroying it.”
On day one, I will sign a new executive order to cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory [CRT], transgender insanity, and all other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content onto our children.
Trump’s comments come at a time when some states are considering aggressive policies that target homeschoolers and their parents.
Last week, video footage surfaced on social media of the Michigan State Board of Education discussing Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel’s proposed rule to require homeschool students to register with their public school district and to submit to warrantless searches of their homes.
In the video, Republican Board Member Tom McMillin stated that Nessel “already kind of said the quiet part out loud.”
“She basically said, ‘We want this list [of homeschooled students] so we can have unwarranted home entry,’” McMillin noted.
Fellow Republican Board Member Nikki Snyder echoed McMillin’s concern.
“I think students have a constitutional right, reasonable expectation to privacy,” she said.
“It’s oppressive to ask a student that has left the public education system … to then register with that same system,” she emphasized.
Snyder, a nurse, is running for Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat this year.
Readers can find Trump’s full remarks to the NRB below. He begins discussing education policy at timestamp 1:06:38.
