Renewing an issue that has virtually disappeared from his policy agenda, President Donald Trump called on Congress in his State of the Union speech to approve “school choice” legislation — without providing any details about what he has in mind.
His comments came against the backdrop of a clamor in several CA school districts and from teacher unions to impose a moratorium on charter school expansion. As charter schools have expanded in CA, private school enrollments have dropped steadily over the past several decades.
