Commentary: Donald Trump has a chance to become a true education president

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Trump tends to favor disruption over constructive policymaking, but he has already made non-college pathways a signature education statement, and the idea has become popular with both parties.
54% : Trump has a chance to build on what he has already said he believes and become a true education president.
53% : But Trump was right too: 45% of those holding a bachelor's are underemployed even a decade after they graduate, working in jobs that don't require a degree, and 28% of people with a two-year associate's degree earn more than the average four-year-college graduate.
45% : The problem is that high schools have become so college-focused that students who don't plan on higher education usually get little to no guidance on what careers they might consider, according to a recent Gallup poll.
40% : That would be a far more productive path for Trump to take on education during his second administration than the issues he's been batting around lately -- especially because he will have some trouble realizing his ambitions even with a compliant Congress.
37% : Trump and other Republicans saw that the education vision President Obama had pushed -- consisting of a vague Common Core public school curriculum followed by "college for all" -- had alienated working-class Americans.
32% : Even as Trump vows to get the federal government out of the schools -- though really, now that the No Child Left Behind Act is dead and gone, the Education Department does little to interfere with public education -- he wants to meddle more by pulling funding from any schools that teach about LGBTQ+ issues or "critical race theory."

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