re: Trump plans to create American Academy - a federally controlled online college

I don't have a problem with Trump's idea, even though I can see all the ways it can go wrong. This is a vexing problem.

Finding the right solution is not easy.

At its core we have to find a way to incentivize better education and strip power from the entities that are destroying education.

The core of my plan for K-12 is to make all costs for private school or homeschool deductible from your final taxable income, after the other deductions and adjustments. Also, for homeschool, if you teach your kid 200 days per year, 1-3hrs per day, you get a $50 credit per day, and if 4hrs or more it's $100 per day, that adds to the tax deductible amount. Teaching your kid part time would lead to a $10k per year additional deduction, and teaching full time would be $20k per year. No requirement to teach 200 days per year, I just use that for the sake of making the math easy for illustration purposes. But, a 200 day school year is very easy if you don't take all of the holidays.

Get kids out of public schools via incentive. This will prompt local and state voters to demand less funding for public schools and then we'll see those dollars go elsewhere and teachers and administrators won't be indoctrinating kids.