Rand Paul, Champion of School Choice

Public schools are failing

On a late May afternoon in 2013, in a home nestled in the hills of the East Bay in the San Francisco Bay Area, Senator Rand Paul met with a group of prominent Black conservatives from the Frederick Douglass Foundation of California during a fundraiser for his Senate campaign. They urged him to consider school choice as the issue for the GOP to put forward as the path to diversifying the base and including more minority voters. Given the post-mortem the RNC issued a few months prior, after the disastrous November elections, with a $10 million plan to address minority engagement, this was sage advice.

Whether that meeting was the catalyst for Senator Paul’s re-doubled commitment to school choice or not, he has been a champion indeed, as was his father before him.

Just a few months after that meeting, Dr. Paul spoke to The Washington Post about his views on education, with the Post writing:

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., wants children — especially minority and poor children — to have more choices …