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Francis Suarez:
Expanding "Don't Say Gay" to all grades is excessive
Suarez took one of his first shots at a GOP primary opponent by criticizing DeSantis' expansion of a school policy that prohibits the discussion of gender identity and sexual orientation in classrooms. "I think that that's excessive," the
Republican mayor told NBC News when asked about expanding the law to all grades. "I think we need to make sure that, you know, young adults do get sex education training," Suarez said.
Source: NBC News on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Jun 16, 2023
Francis Suarez:
Miami has always led on school choice
[On K-12 education]: "Miami has always led on school choice," said Suarez to express his support for the project that aims to push funding to students instead of schools. The proposal is that a child's education dollars should be for them to decide
where to receive their education, that could be the traditional public school, or that money could follow the child to a charter school, or to a private school, religious or non-religious. That money could also be used to cover the costs of homeschooling.
Source: El American on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Jan 28, 2022
Mike Pence:
There was racial inequity in education system; no longer
Q: You do not believe there is racial inequity in the education system in America?PENCE: I really don't believe there is. I believe there was. There may have been a time when affirmative action was necessary simply to open the doors of all of
our schools and universities, but I think that time has passed. I really believe that the accomplishments of America's students, particularly our minority students, tells us that we've opened those doors and I'm confident those doors will remain open.
Source: CBS Face the Nation on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Jul 2, 2023
Tim Scott:
Started the School Choice Caucus & they work
Q: What is the argument for you policy-wise versus President Trump or anybody else who gets into this field?SCOTT: I hope we have about 30 minutes left to have this conversation... I started the School Choice Caucus. We led to the highest level of
funding for HBCUs In the history of the country and then we made it permanent. I led on the vast majority of those pieces of legislation, I've worked on police reform where we want to make sure that the best wore the badge, that the officers have the
best resources, the best training, and we never questioned their qualified immunity.
Q: On School choice [some say] what you do is end up hurting public schools when you let parents take the money elsewhere. How can public schools improve if you take
even more money from them?
SCOTT: Look at Success Academy in NYC where you see the populations are about 87% minority and yet their schools are the top in the state of New York. What we've seen very consistently.
Source: Fox News Sunday on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Feb 26, 2023
Will Hurd:
We've done terribly preparing students of color for college
The reality is, with or without affirmative action, we have done a terrible job of preparing our black and brown kids to be able to go to college. When you look at the number of black and brown kids that are graduating high school, but not going to
college, those numbers are terrible. And so we have been failing them in making sure that they have the skill sets and the tools they need in order to get to college, but also be successful while they're there.
Source: CNN interviews on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Jul 2, 2023
Clarence Thomas:
Race is not to blame: end college affirmative action
In the Supreme Court's affirmative action decision, Clarence Thomas' opinion said "Individuals are the sum of their unique experiences, challenges and accomplishments. What matters is not the barriers they face, but how they choose to confront them.
And their race is not to blame for everything, good or bad, that happens in their lives." And Ketanji Brown Jackson said: "Deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. Although formal race-linked legal barriers are gone, race still
matters to the lived experiences of all Americans in innumerable ways. And today's ruling makes things worse, not better." [The Supreme Court ruled 6-2-1 in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, with Ketanji Brown Jackson recusing herself, that
Harvard's admissions program violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. The same ruling applied to SFFA v. University of North Carolina, hence disallowing affirmative action in both private and public college admissions -- OTI]
Source: CNN SOTU interviews on 2023 Presidential primary hopefuls
Jul 2, 2023
Mike Pence:
Student loan forgiveness not about helping the middle class
The majority of people that would have benefited from this student loan forgiveness are people with multiple graduate degrees. So you're going to say to working Americans, to truck drivers, to people working in the
trades, 'we're going to take your taxes and pay down a part of the student debt of doctors and lawyers and Ph.D.s.' It's just- it, nothing could be further than the truth. This was not about the middle class.
Source: CBS Face the Nation on 2023 Presidential primary hopefuls
Jul 2, 2023
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.:
Invest in public schools but with vouchers & parental choice
- RFK Jr. is in favor of school choice and open to ideas like vouchers but emphasizes the importance of maintaining investment in public schools.
- The experience of the past few years has bolstered the case for school choice.
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He acknowledges the challenges of implementing a voucher system without harming public schools but believes that giving parents the choice to send their children to better schools is essential.
- "80% of black Americans want school choice. And I think we have to honor that choice. You know,
I had a choice of where I was going to send my kids to school, just because I have resources and it, and all Americans should have that choice."--RFK Jr.
Source: PodcastNotes.org by Bari Weiss: 2023 presidential hopefuls
Jun 24, 2023
Will Hurd:
Colleges can still consider race without affirmative action
Q: In the Supreme Court's affirmative action decision [SFFA v. Harvard]: Clarence Thomas' opinion said "Individuals are the sum of their unique experiences. And their race is not to blame for everything, good or bad, that happens in their lives."
Ketanji Brown Jackson said: "Deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. Although formal race-linked legal barriers are gone, race still matters to the lived experiences of all Americans in innumerable ways." Who do you agree with?
HURD: Well, race still does matter. And that's why this case allows race still to be used when adjudicating whether or not a student should be able to go to college.
Q: So, you think that colleges should factor race into their admissions?
HURD:
Colleges still can. The court made it very clear they are able to use that, because it has an impact on who they are and on their life experiences and why they have been successful or the issues that they have been able to deal with.
Source: CNN SOTU interviews on 2023 Presidential primary hopefuls
Jul 2, 2023
Will Hurd:
First Republican to say that slavery is not a jobs program
I was the first Republican to come out and say that slavery is not a jobs program, and anybody that is implying that there was an upside to slavery is insane. And what is even more shocking to me is that
Ron DeSantis' department of education doubled down on this. Ron DeSantis has doubled down on this multiple times and then he wants to blame the people that wrote this and say, "I wasn't the one that wrote this."
Source: Meet the Press on 2023 Presidential primary hopefuls
Jul 30, 2023
Chase Oliver:
Let schools & parents decide on LGBTQ books in libraries
On "Don't Say Gay" bills such as in Florida, Oliver said school choice--a system wherein money follows the pupil, rather than everyone paying for public education--could give parents options in states with anti-LGBTQ school policies."I'm somebody
who wants to have inclusive education that focuses on critical thinking and age-appropriate curriculum, and I think we can certainly have that while being inclusive to LGBTQ people and families," he said. "Personally I think it's important to acknowledge
LGBTQ people exist. I believe personally, in my personal opinion, that should fall under the role of education--but as a candidate for president, ultimately parents and students should decide where to send their education dollars."
When it comes to
books about LGBTQ people or with LGBTQ themes being allowed in school libraries, Oliver said that's a decision best left to the schools and parents themselves. Competition from private schools may cause public schools to reassess.
Source: Bay Area Reporter on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Aug 22, 2023
Ryan Binkley:
Defends Texas law allowing chaplains in public schools
A presidential candidate and pastor is defending the idea of putting chaplains in schools as a new Texas law allows them to do so. Ryan Binkley, a North Texas-based pastor running for president of the United States as a Republican, spoke out in favor of
Senate Bill 763 in an interview with The Christian Post. "I think the intent behind it is good and that's really just to try and provide ... better counseling support for our younger generation, and I think that's needed," he said.
Source: The Christian Post on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Sep 8, 2023
Donald Trump:
Shut down Department of Education; send it back to states
[On video press release]: "Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday he wants to close the Department of Education and have state governments 'run the education of our children,' pushing for a long-held Republican goal that has been endorsed by
several other 2024 GOP candidates," CNN reports.Said Trump, in a video: "We're going to end education coming out of Washington, DC. We're going to close it up--all those buildings all over the place and people that in many cases hate our children.
We're going to send it all back to the states."
"But eliminating the US Department of Education would not necessarily give any more power to states over K-12 schools. While the federal agency helps the president execute education policies,
the power to set curriculum, establish schools and determine enrollment eligibility already lies with the states and local school boards."
Source: PoliticalWire.com on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Sep 13, 2023
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