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It provides a much-needed response to the virtual monopoly public schools have over the education system within the U.S.
Among the many executive orders signed by President Donald Trump in the first weeks of his new administration is one that frees up federal funding in support of school choice. This is great news for many parents and a much-needed pushback against public schools’ virtual monopoly over our nation’s education system.
The president’s Jan. 31 executive order, “Expanding Education Freedom and Opportunity for Families,” directs the Education Department to prioritize school-choice programs through its discretionary grants, in addition to issuing guidance to states about federal allocations to districts and schools.
Bishop David O’Connell of Trenton, New Jersey, the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Catholic Education, applauded the order, remarking that it “rightly recognizes that parents are the primary educators of their children.”
Bishop O’Connell also used the opportunity to restate the Church’s teaching, laid out most recently in Gravissimum Educationis, that “since parents have given children their life, they are bound by the most serious obligation to educate them and therefore must be recognized as the primary and principal educators of their own children.”
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Among the many executive orders signed by President Donald Trump in the first weeks of his new administration is one that frees up federal funding in support of school choice. This is great news for many parents and a much-needed pushback against public schools’ virtual monopoly over our nation’s education system.
The president’s Jan. 31 executive order, “Expanding Education Freedom and Opportunity for Families,” directs the Education Department to prioritize school-choice programs through its discretionary grants, in addition to issuing guidance to states about federal allocations to districts and schools.
Bishop David O’Connell of Trenton, New Jersey, the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Catholic Education, applauded the order, remarking that it “rightly recognizes that parents are the primary educators of their children.”
Bishop O’Connell also used the opportunity to restate the Church’s teaching, laid out most recently in Gravissimum Educationis, that “since parents have given children their life, they are bound by the most serious obligation to educate them and therefore must be recognized as the primary and principal educators of their own children.”
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Why President Trump’s Executive Order on School Choice Is Great News
COMMENTARY: It provides a much-needed response to the virtual monopoly public schools have over the education system within the U.S.
