EDUCATION: “Charter schools are another thing that people are talking about a lot, and some of the charter schools in New York have been amazing. They’ve done incredibly well. People can’t get in. I mean, you can’t get in. I don’t call it an experiment anymore, it’s far beyond an experiment.
If you look at so many elements of education, and it’s so sad to see what’s coming — what’s happening in the country. Even the numbers, as good — you say we’re doing better, but the numbers in New York, the numbers in Chicago are very rough. The numbers in Los Angeles, the cities, it’s a very rough situation. Common Core — I mean, we have to bring education more local. We can’t be managing education from Washington.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump and Vice President Pence at CEO Town Hall on Unleashing American Business,” whitehouse.gov, Apr. 4, 2017