President-elect Donald Trump is poised to enact a dramatic expansion of “school choice” programs next year that would make it easier for hundreds of thousands of parents to send their children to private school.
Though Trump will likely not be able to abolish the U.S. Department of Education as he has promised, experts say he stands a good chance of winning a tax break for programs that help pay for private tuition. That approach would not steer federal dollars directly to private schools but would still amount to a significant development in a decades-long fight over education.
“The consequence would be the biggest school choice victory ever in Washington,” said Frederick Hess, an education expert at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute.
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