support school choice
Support school choice.
Occurrences
Evidence
Carter's Education issue page says he supports legislation to restrain federal education bureaucrats, rein in the Department of Education, and support school choice.
Carter said he voted for H.R. 5 to reduce the federal role in K-12 education and that the bill would give parents more school choice options through magnet and charter school opportunities and funding that follows students.
In a House Education and the Workforce hearing record, Carter stated that he had been a co-sponsor in the Georgia legislature of both a voucher bill and a special-needs scholarship bill, and that both had become law in Georgia.
Assessments
The promise was to support school choice, not necessarily to single-handedly enact a federal school-choice program. In federal office, Carter publicly endorsed school choice on his official education issue page and voted for H.R. 5 while describing it as expanding parental choice through magnet, charter, and student-following funding options. His prior Georgia legislative co-sponsorship of voucher and special-needs scholarship bills further supports consistent candidate credit, but the federal-office vote and stated position are enough to count the promise as delivered in the same term context.