Reduce government control over education and empower parents to guide school choices and classroom priorities.

Diana Harshbarger · Tennessee · Republican

policy impact 0.70 specificity 0.63 extraction confidence 88%

Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.

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put parents back in the driver’s seat and ensure that our next generation is focused on learning skills that will benefit their futures, not extreme ideologies

Commits to giving parents more control over education and shifting schools toward practical skills rather than ideology.

Coalitions — Diana Harshbarger for Congress
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Evidence

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The official homepage shows Harshbargers latest visible office activity in mid-May 2026 as a PBM Act reintroduction and a Moms.gov launch, with the recent votes feed covering non-education bills. There is no new education-specific accomplishment visible in the current news/votes feed for the lookback window.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Recent official site activity is current, but it does not show an education-policy deliverable in the last 30 days.

unresolved same_term

Representative Diana Harshbarger |
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Harshbarger says she strongly supports school choice and educational freedoms, wants state and local control over education decisions, opposes federal interference in K-12 schools, and says she co-sponsored the Parents Bill of Rights Act and introduced the NOT in Our Schools Act.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): She has made concrete pro-parent, anti-federal-control education commitments and backed related legislation, but this is advocacy rather than completed policy change.

partial same_term A for effort

Education | Representative Diana Harshbarger
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Congress.gov identifies H.R. 2616 as an education bill and shows that it was reported by the House Education and Workforce Committee, with the latest action placing it on the Union Calendar. The bill has not become law.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): A related parental-rights education bill advanced in committee but remained unfinished, so the promise is not delivered through legislation.

partial same_term A for effort

H.R.2616 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): PROTECT Kids Act | Congress.gov
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This document contains proposed regulations regarding the nonrefundable Federal tax credit for qualified contributions to scholarship granting organizations to fund qualified elementary and secondary school education scholarships.

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Within the lookback window, Treasury and IRS moved implementation forward for the federal scholarship tax credit created by Public Law 119-21, showing concrete delivery activity on the school-choice portion of the promise.

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Federal Register, Volume 91 Issue 190 (Friday, October 2, 2026)
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 94%

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Beginning Jan. 1, 2027, individual taxpayers may be able to claim a Federal Scholarship Tax Credit (FSTC) for certain cash contributions up to $1,700 to Scholarship Granting Organizations (SGOs).

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The IRS current program page confirms the school-choice tax credit is scheduled to become claimable beginning January 1, 2027.

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Federal Scholarship Tax Credit (FSTC) | Internal Revenue Service
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The following states have made an advance election to participate under Section 25F for 2027:

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The IRS list of participating states for 2027 includes Tennessee, making the enacted federal school-choice tax credit relevant to Harshbarger's state and district.

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Federal Scholarship Tax Credit (FSTC) | Internal Revenue Service
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there shall be allowed as a credit against the tax imposed by this chapter for the taxable year an amount equal to the aggregate amount of qualified contributions made by the taxpayer during the taxable year.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Public Law 119-21 enacted a federal tax credit for contributions to scholarship-granting organizations, a concrete federal school-choice policy outcome.

partial same_term

Public Law 119-21 - July 4, 2025
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 95%

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Harshbarger | Harshbarger | Republican | TN | Aye

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Harshbarger voted aye on the final House motion to concur in the Senate amendment to H.R. 1, the vehicle that became Public Law 119-21 and included the scholarship tax credit.

partial same_term A for effort

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 94%

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verified · Source version 83748 · locator 1284

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The separate parent/classroom-priorities bill passed the House but remained referred to the Senate HELP Committee, so that portion of the promise was still unresolved rather than enacted.

unresolved same_term A for effort

H.R. 2616 (RFS) - Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act - BILLS-119hr2616rfs | Content Details | GovInfo
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Assessments

Public state: unverified As of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): never. unknown A for effort

Harshbarger clearly backed the promise in office by advocating school choice, opposing federal K-12 interference, co-sponsoring the Parents Bill of Rights Act, and introducing related education legislation. But the available evidence does not show a completed federal policy outcome that reduced government control over education or materially expanded parental control. The cited education bill activity advanced in committee and onto the Union Calendar, yet did not become law, and her recent official activity does not show an education-policy deliverable. Under a federal office standard, that is a serious legislative effort without successful delivery, so the promise is best scored as never rather than partial or delivered.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.4 · confidence 93%