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2.) Trump Is Pro-Choice, For Schools

Back in September, Trump presented a $20 billion school choice plan that would be designed to help parents and students from poor communities attending struggling public schools or as he called them, “failing government schools,” attend charter and private schools. He says he will redirect federal money to the states and leave it up to them decide if the money would be used to put kids in better public, private, charter or magnet schools. Detractors of the plan pointed out that Trump never identified what federal government plans would have to be cut or altered to pay for this. Hillary for America senior policy adviser Maya Harris told Poltico that the “proposal could strip funding from up to 56,000 public schools serving more than 21 million children” and it “might only serve 1.4 million students, while stripping funding from the other 10.5 million low-income students in America.” Education experts have also side-eyed the plan saying that if the federal government starts paying for education, they will eventually start controlling it completely.

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