What the presidential candidates have done, and where they stand, on education

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What the presidential candidates have done, and where they stand, on education

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When it comes to education policy, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris not only have mostly distinct visions but also distinct track records.

Harris is calling for a wider role for the federal government and

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. Trump is focused on

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and relying upon states, localities and parents to make educational decisions and investments.

At the same time, there are some commonalities, including the growing importance of career and technical education. What follows is a review of what the two candidates have done in the world of education while in office.

On higher education

The candidates share a concern about the high cost of higher education. But they have different visions for how to address those costs. As California’s attorney general, Harris

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. The judgment provides refunds for students who were misled by claims about job placement rates, program offerings and military affiliations.

Whereas Harris has

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, Trump has focused on promoting innovation by

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and

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. This includes making it easier for online, ******-based and for-profit institutions to be accredited.

As part of the Biden administration, Harris has pursued

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. She has also

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for expanding access to the

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program. This follows her having

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as a ******* States senator.

The administration has faced

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of the loan forgiveness initiative on the grounds that the president does not have the authority under present law to unilaterally cancel debt. Opponents have also said any debt forgiveness would have to be authorized by Congress.

Critics say further that loan forgiveness

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of higher education. Loan forgiveness

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if institutions thought that students would care less about the cost of college in anticipation of having their debt forgiven.

Trump created two entities to

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: a council of federal officials and an advisory board of business leaders.

In 2019, Trump signed a bipartisan bill to

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for Historically ****** Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, that was previously subject to annual renewal.

Harris has called for

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. She also promoted job training programs as an alternative to incarceration in her

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as attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017.

As attorney general and then a U.S. senator from California, she called for

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and

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. She also supported

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to public and nonprofit colleges, including free community colleges and large grants to HBCUs.

On K-12 education

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calls for sweeping changes to K-12 education policy. This includes

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, which would entail allowing parents across the country to

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through vouchers or tax credits if they chose. It also features a drastically reduced federal role in education.

In fact,

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. Many of these plans, such as direct election of school principals by parents, are

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due to the fact that schools in the ******* States are mainly under state and local control.

Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, Trump

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to allow parents to save up to $10,000 per year tax-free for K-12 private school tuition.

While president, Trump made

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that could foreshadow his future plans. These proposals include

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in annual budget requests and turning the Title I allocation for supplemental services for students in ********, such as smaller classes or tutoring, into a

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The Biden administration has sought to

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are public schools that receive additional funding and staffing to help address the academic needs of students as well as factors outside of school, such as access to health care and healthy food, that affect learning.

The Biden administration also

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to include ******* orientation and gender identity.

As a candidate for the presidential nomination in 2019, Vice President Harris also called for federal funding to

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, though she has not made a similar call in this campaign.

As California attorney general, Harris made reducing chronic absenteeism a signature issue when she led the

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. This initiative included additional funding to districts and schools to use data to better understand and monitor absenteeism and to communicate with parents about the importance of school attendance.

The data and communication-focused approach was an evolution from her

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, which placed more emphasis on prosecuting parents for truancy.

On early childhood learning

Neither Trump nor Harris has a significant record of tangible actions when it comes to early childhood education. Project 2025, which Trump has disavowed but was

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, calls for

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, a federally funded, locally run, early childhood learning program to support low-income families.

Although Trump made

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to cut funding for the Child Care and Development Block Grant by about 5%, they were not passed into law by Congress.

Harris has made

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for all 4-year-olds, but the Biden administration was

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More recent

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have raised questions about how long the academic gains from early childhood programs persist.

On net, however, the evidence from the highest-quality studies for high-quality early childhood programs in general, and the Head Start program in particular, suggests that they

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