Trump: School choice is a human right

Donald Trump made his newest pitch to minority voters by promising to invest in school choice.

The Republican nominee turned the issue into a matter of civil rights, claiming that the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton are too beholden to teacher unions and are a barrier to progress.

“The Democratic Party has trapped millions of African-American and Hispanic youth in failing government schools that deny them the opportunity to join the ladder of American success.”

According to the plan released by Trump’s team, $20 billion of existing federal dollars would be reprioritized from existing budget into a block grant for every impoverished school-aged child in the country.

States would also be asked to contribute an addition $110 billion of their own education budget to provide “$12,000 in school choice funds to every single K-12 student who today is living in poverty.”