The issue of education in America has barely been discussed in this campaign

despite there being very sharp differences between Donald Trump and

Kamala Harris on how best to teach America's kids into the future.

William Bringham has been looking into their positions

on K through 12 education for our Promises and Policy series

and he joins us now.

Good to see it, William.

Hi, Amna.

So education policy has not at all been a major focus of this campaign season.

Do you have a sense of why that is?

On some level, I think it's a reflection of the electorate and polls show that the

economy and immigration are top issues I mean for Democrats also the worry about

democracy I mean at both the vice presidential and presidential debate not one question asked about education

not one answer or issue offered about it except for a brief mention of school shootings

which is kind of the opposite of education.

It is striking though, given we are seeing this drop in the ability of fourth graders and eighth

graders to do basic math and to read at a grade level that this is not more of a

national issue. When education is being discussed in this campaign it is most

often the things that Donald Trump has been focusing on.

And that's number one, the fight over school curriculums and the teaching specifically of history and

race and gender and the fight over school choice and whether parents should have public

school money to do with as they please. So let's just talk about where each of the

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