Trump says educational opportunities are a solution to the current civil unrest.
In his Tuesday Rose Garden address, President Trump announced the Executive Order on Safe Policing and for Safe Communities. This executive order comes in the wake of protests sweeping across the nation in the past weeks. The president also brought up a topic that may seem unrelated to the day’s agenda: school choice.
“We achieved the lowest black, Hispanic, and Asian unemployment rates in American history,” Trump said. “We’ll do it again. We’re fighting for school choice, which really is the civil rights [issue] of all time in this country. Frankly, school choice is the civil rights statement of the year, of the decade, and probably beyond.”
As a policy generally supported by Republicans today and opposed by Democrats, many interpreted President Trump’s remarks on school choice as an attempt to advance a conservative political agenda. The Hill described President Trump’s school choice remarks as “out of place as the nation is gripped by protests over the treatment of black Americans by law enforcement.”
But the connection between the protesters’ grievances and school choice is a simple one: the right to quality public education.
Bill Phillips – The American Spectator – June 18, 2020.
