How Trump Could Gut Public Education

Kevin Carey was quoted in Slate about how President-elect Trump's voucher plan could welcome for-profit operators:

Kevin Carey, director of education policy at New America, the nonpartisan think tank (and partner with Slate on Future Tense), agrees. He points out that vouchers could be made available to home-schoolers, a largely conservative constituency that relies on online education tools. “In all kinds of ways big and small, there will be a push to open up education funding to for-profit operators,” Carey predicts.

But it wouldn’t be impossible for Trump to find state-level partners. “To pull it off, he would have to find an enthusiastic governor and legislature who want to get on board with a big privatization experiment,” Carey said. “I imagine out of 50 states, he could find one.” Would privatization be a cost-efficient way to help kids learn more? It’s doubtful.