Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 63
Add $20 billion in federal funding for school choice
Never delivered“[paraphrase] I am proposing to redirect $20 billion in existing federal dollars to school choice.”
- Promised
- , Education speech, Cleveland, Ohio
- Re-promised
- 6 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Education
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What happened
Congress did not appropriate the $20 billion. Federal charter school program funding rose only modestly, and a proposed federal tax-credit scholarship never passed. PolitiFact rated the promise broken, finding increases were minimal.