The policy implications of Tuesday’s historic electoral shift are many and far-reaching, and much ink will be spilled discussing tariffs, the Iran war, and immigration. But one thing is certain: Education reform was significantly set back.
Since the Covid pandemic, education policy has been a conservative game. Reformers in red states and officials in the Trump administration have made demonstrable improvements in American schools. The midterms’ blue wave threatens to reverse these wins, or, at the very least, will grind this momentum to a halt.
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