The 2024 choice on education: Trump sides with families, Harris with the teacher unions

Of all the policy issues where the choice between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris is stark, perhaps the most surprising is education: He’s all-in for parental choice; she’s committed to serving the interests of the teachers unions.

And polling shows a majority of Americans are on his side, after decades when the Democratic had a strong edge on education.

But the pandemic was a huge eye-opener for millions of us: Not only did we see the unions and their office-holding pawns vociferously demand to keep schools closed as fully and as long as possible — long after all the science showed that it posed zero risk of spreading COVID — the “remote learning” offered in the place of real schooling gave us a window on what our public schools were teaching.