support school choice
Support school choice.
Occurrences
empower parents
Evidence
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Carter's Education issue page says he supports legislation to restrain federal education bureaucrats, rein in the Department of Education, and support school choice.
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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.
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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.