What Is the Future of Public Education?
It’s shaping up to be a contentious year on the education beat, fueled in part by Donald Trump’s upset victory in the presidential election. For starters, in the weeks and months since his election, his campaign call for expanding school choice has sparked widespread discussion and debate. And while federal policy is often a slow-moving train, it wouldn’t be difficult for the president-elect and the GOP-led Congress to change tracks on many key initiatives enacted by the Obama administration, affecting everything from the recent rewrite of the No Child Left Behind Act to school-lunch menus and oversight of for-profit colleges.
Predictions have been stacking up not only from pundits but also journalists, including Goldie Blumenstyk of the, Alyson Klein of, and Claudio Sanchez. Understandably, school choice is on almost everyone’s list as a front-burner issue.
