Democrat Platform Talks Big About Education Reform While Trapping Kids In Failing Schools

On Monday night, delegates of the 2024 Democratic National Convention voted to approve the Democrat Party’s 2024 national platform, with a stand-alone section dedicated to education policy: “Providing a World-Class Education in Every Zip Code.”

The title is ironic given that the platform opposes school choice, the one policy that allows students regardless of ZIP code to get the education they deserve. Opposition to school choice is not an isolated policy, however; the platform conflates public schools with all education and assumes that the only way to improve education in this country is to throw more funding at public schools rather than find different avenues that allow students, teachers, and communities to thrive.

“For too long,” the platform states, “we have short-changed our children by

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