House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on Monday said a Gallup poll that shows public trust in U.S. public schools has hit a record low shows that "parents deserve better, and frankly, so do their kids."
Gallup found in a survey released in July that confidence in public schools had fallen to 26%, down from 28% in 2022 and 32% in 2021.
McCarthy said in a statement on Monday that "Americans' trust in public schools has reached an all-time-low with only 26% having faith in our public school system. This is in large part due to the Biden administration's policies that keep parents in the dark and diminish the central role that families play in a child's mental, emotional, and educational development. In fact, the Biden Justice Department had the audacity to label concerned parents who spoke up at school board meetings as 'domestic terrorists.'"
McCarthy promoted House Republicans' Parents Bill of Rights, which he said "would dramatically strengthen the role of parents in the education of their children." The bill was opposed by every House Democrat.
McCarthy called on Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to "allow an up-or-down vote on the Parents Bill of Rights in the Senate. He owes it to parents — and to America's kids — to prove that Democrats are not the anti-parent party."
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