District Leaders Must Empower Parents in Trump’s America

On the morning of November 8, 2016, Reuters announced that Hillary Clinton had a 90 percent chance of winning the presidential election.i Many people could be excused for not having studied Donald Trump’s thoughts on education given the apparent unlikelihood of his victory or his scattered remarks about Common Core or privatizing education. Yet he won the presidency, and superintendents and school board members, like the rest of us, must figure out how to advocate for public education in the new political climate.