Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-AR) predicted that this election will be decided by each campaign’s differences in education policies.
With two weeks left until Election Day, both the Trump and Harris campaigns are on the trail to rally voters to their causes. Vice President Kamala Harris has Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), a former public school teacher, on her ticket, while former President Donald Trump has endorsed a school choice policy. Huckabee Sanders claimed this is a key difference between the two campaigns.
“We had zero states with school choice when Donald Trump became president. Now, there are nearly a dozen because of his leadership. We know it will be the exact opposite if Harris-Walz come in,” Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday on Fox News’s Fox and Friends. “Harris and Walz have both publicly stated that they don’t support school choice from a federal level. We have to put power back in the hands of parents and move more and more to local control because we know that is the best way to help kids have a long-term life of success.”
As a mother of three, Huckabee Sanders noticed that each of her children learns differently. The Arkansas governor said her contingency constituents agree with her that parents make better decisions than the government.
“Here in Arkansas, we’ve been able to pass school choice. We will have full universal school choice go into effect next year,” Huckabee Sanders said. “And 72% of parents in our state support those education freedom accounts because they know how important it is to have power to make a decision about their kid’s education. It is not only widely popular, but frankly, our families are demanding it because want to see their kids have great opportunity, and it’s the best way to do it.”
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Arkansans will consider another educational policy question this November regarding its Arkansas Scholarship Lottery. The system, set up in 2009, has distributed over 720,000 scholarships to students in traditional colleges. An initiative to include vocational and technical students in the draw is on the ballot.
School choice initiatives will be on the ballot in Massachusetts, Florida, Nebraska, New Mexico, Utah, Kentucky, and Colorado this election cycle.