President Donald Trump made his first school visit as president Friday afternoon—and it should be no surprise, given the administration’s emphasis on expanding school choice, that he picked a private, Catholic school in Florida near Orlando.
It’s clear that school choice is the Trump administration’s favorite education policy. What’s less clear is exactly how he plans to push it from the federal level. One possibility: a tax-credit scholarship program, like the one in place in Florida and in more than a dozen other states. Many of the students at the school Trump picked—St. Andrew Catholic School, in Pine Hills—take advantage of the Sunshine State’s version of the program…
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