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Defenders Of Public Education?

After years of paralleling Republican education policies, will Democrats finally support public schools under Kamala Harris and Tim Walz?

“I love the poorly educated.”

– Donald Trump

I dropped out of the Democratic party in 2017 during my second run for an LAUSD School Board seat. Frustrated by local Democratic clubs who ignored the party’s positions on public education and unions to endorse my opponent, Monica Garcia, I registered with the Green Party. With their stated opposition to charter schools, members of this party understood the dangers posed by these publicly funded private schools and were more supportive of my candidacy. Supporters of the Green party’s Congressional candidate, Keneth Meija, even distributed my literature as they canvassed within the shared parts of our districts.

A sample of the Green Party’s education platform.

Local Democrats were emboldened to support the privatization of education by the policies…