Would Donald Trump's Giant Voucher Proposal Work For Rural Students?
Most people have taken President-elect Donald Trump's decision to tap billionaire GOP donor and school choice champion Betsy DeVos as his education secretary as a sign that he wants to make good on his campaign promise to create a massive new school choice program.
One problem? School choice, at least in the form of vouchers or brick-and-mortar charter schools, isn't easy to do in the rural states and communities that played such a large part in Trump's victory in the electoral College.
Just ask Don German, the executive director of the Arizona Rural Schools Association. His state has embraced school choice, Would Donald Trump's Giant Voucher Proposal Work For Rural Students? - Politics K-12 - Education Week: