President-elect Donald Trump and his nominee for Education Secretary Betsy DeVos both support school choice, a key aspect of Speak UP’s platform, prompting some Speak UP members to ask, could this possibly be a good thing? The answer is, decidedly and emphatically -- no. And the reason lies in Speak UP’s other core values of accountability and equity for all kids.

There is a huge chasm between the kind of quality school choice that we have here in California and the type of unregulated and unaccountable choice promulgated by Trump and DeVos, the main architect behind the abysmal failure of a school system in Detroit.