Know Where Your Candidates Stand
For too long, a family’s ZIP code or income decided where their children could go to school. Parents who knew exactly what their child needed were told to wait, to settle, or to pay twice: once in taxes, and again in tuition.
Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) put resources back in the hands of parents. When parents are empowered, students thrive, schools improve, and communities grow stronger.
The freedom your family has today is only as secure as the leaders who defend it tomorrow.
| Candidate | School Choice Position | School Choice Expansion | ESA Reform / Oversight | Private School Autonomy |
Eddie Andrews (R) |
Backs robust parental rights and educational options. | Open to expanding educational choices generally. | Favors parental control over bureaucratic government oversight. | Emphasizes keeping private and faith-based schools independent. |
Randy Feenstra (R) |
Endorses the ESA concept to foster public-private competition. | Supports the current ESA program but wants to force private schools to accept all applicants. | Proposes that private schools accepting ESA funds must accept all students. | Wants to “level the playing field” by taking away the right of private schools to make admissions choices. |
Zach Lahn (R) |
Co-founded private schools and prioritizes public school quality. | Prefers driving state-level classroom innovation. | Favors clearing out bureaucracy to empower teachers locally. | Supports the independent, non-traditional private school model. |
Brad Sherman (R) |
Views education through a lens of local/state control. | Calls for universal expansion; opposes any income caps or wealth thresholds for receiving vouchers. | Opposes federal/state administrative oversight in education. | Opposes government intrusion into church/faith-based schools. |
Adam Steen (R) |
Believes true school choice must encompass all models. | Advocates expanding ESA funding eligibility to homeschooled students. | Rejects regulations that could weaken faith-based schooling. | Critiques policies that force private schools to alter admissions. |
Rob Sand (D) |
Argues the current model drains public funds and drives tuition inflation. | Rejects expansion; advocates for tightening eligibility. | Demands annual public audits of ESA spending and caps on tuition hikes. | Asserts that any school accepting public money must “take the public.” |
School Choice Position: Backs robust parental rights and educational options.
School Choice Expansion: Open to expanding educational choices generally.
ESA Reform / Oversight: Favors parental control over bureaucratic government oversight.
Private School Autonomy: Emphasizes keeping private and faith-based schools independent.
School Choice Position: Endorses the ESA concept to foster public-private competition.
School Choice Expansion: Supports the current ESA program but wants to force private schools to accept all applicants.
ESA Reform / Oversight: Proposes that private schools accepting ESA funds must accept all students.
Private School Autonomy: Wants to “level the playing field” by taking away the right of private schools to make admissions choices.
School Choice Position: Co-founded private schools and prioritizes public school quality.
School Choice Expansion: Prefers driving state-level classroom innovation.
ESA Reform / Oversight: Favors clearing out bureaucracy to empower teachers locally.
Private School Autonomy: Supports the independent, non-traditional private school model.
School Choice Position: Views education through a lens of local/state control.
School Choice Expansion: Calls for universal expansion; opposes any income caps or wealth thresholds for receiving vouchers.
ESA Reform / Oversight: Opposes federal/state administrative oversight in education.
Private School Autonomy: Opposes government intrusion into church/faith-based schools.
School Choice Position: Believes true school choice must encompass all models.
School Choice Expansion: Advocates expanding ESA funding eligibility to homeschooled students.
ESA Reform / Oversight: Rejects regulations that could weaken faith-based schooling.
Private School Autonomy: Critiques policies that force private schools to alter admissions.
School Choice Position: Argues the current model drains public funds and drives tuition inflation.
School Choice Expansion: Rejects expansion; advocates for tightening eligibility.
ESA Reform / Oversight: Demands annual public audits of ESA spending and caps on tuition hikes.
Private School Autonomy: Asserts that any school accepting public money must “take the public.”
Polls are open from 7:00 AM to 8:00 PM on Tuesday, June 2.
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