Commentary: Education gets short shrift from Trump and Harris on the presidential campaign trail

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : He wants to open parent choice, to the point of allowing widespread vouchers that include religious schools, even though it's not the parents who pay for public education.
53% : Also, just because the nation has discovered that skills and smarts matter, this doesn't mean that we can forget about access to higher education.
51% : Harris has had even less to say, mainly limiting herself to brief mentions of continuing some kind of bailout for people struggling with student loan debt, and increasing career paths for young adults who don't go on to a four-year college education, which is close to half of all high school graduates.
49% : Still, the country has about 50 million students enrolled in public schools, and that's not counting the preschoolers, private-school students, parents, teachers and other school staff who all have a direct personal connection to education.
47% : Trump has vowed to start a free, national online university, but after seeing the workings of Trump University, I'll take a pass on that.
38% : But it's a dicey choice for Harris and not a very original one because Trump got the ball on that rolling during his first administration.
36% : Trump predictably says he would do away with the U.S. Education Department and return power over schools to the states.
14% : A reconfigured curriculum that engages students and readies them for real life might not grab headlines as Harris did by telling Trump that Russian President Vladimir Putin would "eat you for lunch" or the way Trump's swaying to music for a half hour did.

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