In 2014, while campaigning for president, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was sharply criticized for stating that school choice is "The most compelling civil rights issue of the 21st century." The senator was absolutely correct, yet a decade later only nine states have adopted policies establishing universal education freedom.
To make matters worse, elected Republicans are increasing financial support for a broken public education system that is openly hostile to conservative families.
In Pennsylvania, for example, Gov. Josh Shapiro recently touted his $1 billion increase in K-12 education spending, bringing the total annual expenditures on public education to a whopping $19.1 billion, or 44 percent of the total state budget.
Republican officials in Pennsylvania cozy up to conservative voters when they need them, but then continue to fuel a public education system that is diametrically opposed to the primacy of parental rights.
In Meyer v. Nebraska, the Supreme Court held that parents have a fundamental right "To control the education of their own." A few years later, in Pierce v. Society of Sisters, the court affirmed that government cannot unreasonably interfere with the liberty of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children.
The system isn't working for anyone but the people who decide how to control the flow of Pennsylvania's $20 billion education budget.
Rather than hold the "Experts" accountable and demand comprehensive school choice as a form of reconciliation, Republicans are instead rewarding a public education establishment that indisputably harmed children and still aggressively pushes policies that intentionally undermine conservative families.
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