Where do Harris and Trump stand? • Nebraska Examiner
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of reports from U.S. newsrooms on key policy issues in the presidential campaign.
As former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris rush toward the finish line in November, the vast policy area of education has largely faded from view.
While the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates have each spent relatively more time campaigning on issues like immigration, foreign policy and the economy, they have very different ideas on K-12 and higher education.
Trump’s education platform vows to “save American education,” focusing on parental rights, universal school choice and the fight for “patriotic education” in schools.
“By increasing school choice, giving parents a say in their children’s education, and supporting great teachers, President Trump will Improve the academic performance of all students.
Levitt added that Trump “believes students should learn reading, writing and math in the classroom, not sex, gender and race, as the Biden administration is pushing in our public school system.”
Harris’ campaign, meanwhile, is focused on the investments in education brought about by the Biden-Harris administration and building on those efforts if she is elected.
“Over the past four years, the administration has made unprecedented investments in education, including the single largest investment in K-12 education in history, and Vice President Harris has made The decisive vote approved the investment.
Ellenberger said that while Harris and her running mate, Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, “will continue to build on these investments until every student has the support and resources they need to thrive. But Republicans, led by Donald Trump and his extreme 2025 plan, want to cut billions of dollars from local K-12 schools and eliminate the Department of Education, hurting America’s students and schools. “
Harris has repeatedly criticized the Heritage Foundation 2025 plan – A sweeping conservative agenda, including education policy proposals such as eliminating Head Start, ending time- and career-based student loan forgiveness, and banning teachers from using students’ preferred gender codes that differ from their “biological sex” without written permission from parents or guardians synonymous with.
Trump has vehemently denied Plan 2025, even though some former members of his administration developed the blueprint.
Close the U.S. Department of Education
Trump has Request to close The U.S. Department of Education says he wants to “shift education back to the states.” The department is not the primary source of funding for K-12 schools because state and local government Allocate most of those dollars.
In contrast, Harris said at the meeting Democratic National Convention August, “We will not let him defund the Department of Education from our public schools.”
Living Wage for School Workers; Parental Bill of Rights
Trump’s education plan calls for the creation of a “new accreditation agency that certifies teachers who embrace patriotic values and understand that their job is not to indoctrinate children but to educate them.”
He also wants to increase funding for schools, “abolish teacher tenure” and adopt “performance pay” from grades K-12, establish a system where parents directly elect principals, and “significantly reduce” the number of school administrators.
In contrast, Democratic Party 2024 Platform calls for the recruitment of “more new teachers, paraprofessionals and school-related staff, and education support professionals, some of whom may even have the option to start training in high schools.”
The platform also aims to help “school support staff advance their careers on a living wage” and improve working conditions for teachers.
Trump also wants to provide funding for schools that adopt “a parent bill of rights that includes full curriculum transparency and some form of universal school choice.”
He threatened to cut federal funding to schools that teach major college academic subjects called “critical race theory,” gender ideology or “other racial, sexual or political content that is inappropriate for our children.”
The Democratic platform opposes “the use of private school vouchers, tuition tax credits, opportunity scholarships and other programs that divert taxpayer-funded resources away from public education,” adding that “public tax dollars should never be used to discriminate.” .
Article 9
Earlier this year, the Biden-Harris administration Final rule for Title IX released Expand federal protections for LGBTQ+ students.
The updated rules took effect Aug. 1, but many Republican-led states have challenged the measure. The legal battle has created confusion over policy and undermined the administration’s vision for the final rule.
Updated regulations Revoke Title IX Changes This was developed under the Trump administration and then-Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
Trump vowed to Termination of updates On his first day back in office, if re-elected.
Student debt and higher education
Harris has repeatedly touted the administration’s record on student loan forgiveness, including nearly $170 billion Provides student debt relief to nearly 5 million borrowers.
The government’s latest student loan repayment program came to an abrupt end in August. U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocks Savings with Value for Education (SAVE) Plan.
Although Harris’s book rarely mentions education broad economic planThe proposal makes clear that the vice president will “continue working to end the unreasonable burden of student loan debt and work to make higher education more affordable and make college a ticket to the middle class.”
She also plans to cut four-year degree requirements for 500,000 federal jobs.
Trump — who calls the Biden-Harris administration “ Student loan relief efforts Considered “not even legal” — attempted to repeal the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program during his administration.
His educational platform also Appeal for donations “American College”, a free online university.
Trump said he would fund the new institution through “billions of dollars that we will raise by taxing, fining, and prosecuting oversized private college endowments.”
