Republican presidential candidate Tim Scott on Monday released what he’s calling his “plan to empower parents.”
The 12-point strategy, which he described as a “parents’ bill of rights,” largely focuses on parental involvement in education. The U.S. senator from South Carolina is vowing, if elected president, to defend parents’ rights to know what their children are learning and reading in school, to allow families to opt their children out of what he called “propaganda that attacks their values and religious liberties,” and to enact nationwide school choice.
What You Need To Know
- Republican presidential candidate Tim Scott on Monday released what he’s calling his “plan to empower parents.”
- The 12-point strategy, which he described as a “parents’ bill of rights,” largely focuses on parental involvement in education
- The U.S. senator from South Carolina is vowing, if elected president, to defend parents’ rights to know what their children are learning and reading in school, to allow families to opt their children out of what he called “propaganda that attacks their values and religious liberties,” and to enact nationwide school choice
- Scott’s plan also aims to protect children online by pushing technology companies to improve their safety features and requiring every mobile app to include a label identifying its country or origin
“Teachers’ unions, Big Tech, and Joe Biden are on a mission to make parents less important,” Scott said. “I have a bold agenda to support and empower parents — from the classroom to the locker room to the smartphone. We must empower parents and give them a choice, so that every child has a chance.”
Scott’s plan calls for transgender student athletes to compete in divisions aligned with their sex at birth and targets critical race theory, although there is little to no evidence the advanced legal theory about institutional racism is being taught at K-12 schools.
"Replace indoctrination with education,” the plan says. “ABC, not C.R.T.”
Scott is also promising to “break the back of the teachers’ unions.” And saying his plan to empower parents begins at adoption, Scott is also vowing to stand “with crisis pregnancy centers and stop the DOJ from turning a blind eye to far-left threats and vandalism.”
He noted there was a fire Monday at a pregnancy center in Spartanburg, South Carolina, which the county sheriff’s office is investigating as an arson case.
Scott’s plan also aims to protect children online by pushing technology companies to improve their safety features and requiring every mobile app to include a label identifying its country or origin.
“Stop Big Tech from stealing kids’ attention spans, China from stealing their privacy, and predators from stealing their future,” the plan says.
Ammar Moussa, spokesman for the Democratic National Committee, attacked Scott’s plan in a written statement Monday.
“Tim Scott has spent his career working to defund public education and gut programs that millions of students across the country rely on, all to divert taxpayer dollars to wealthy private schools,” Moussa said. “Our students, teachers, and parents deserve better than Scott and MAGA Republicans’ extreme agendas that would devastate public education and harm education across the country.”