Party platforms are a way of signaling to voters the policies that politicians are likely to pursue if they’re elected to office. But platforms also send a message to a party’s candidates about what policy positions the party expects them to support.
If elected officials go against their own party’s platform, they might expect to be challenged in a primary.
That’s why the fact that the new Republican Party platform endorses universal school choice is such an important development.
For the first time, the Republican Party is signaling to voters and its own politicians that they should pursue policies that enable all families to choose the educational options that align with their values and work best for their own children—whether public or private, religious or secular.
“We believe schools should educate, not indoctrinate,” said Florida Gov. Ron…
