Gov. Jared Polis, D-Colo., discusses why he chose to support President Donald Trump’s school choice plan and what it means for education in his state on ‘The Will Cain Show.’

2026 is going to be a watershed year for education policy in the United States. It will be the year that will be known a decade and beyond as when the signature federal education policy of this era took shape. 

From the news coverage, you may assume I am writing about the elimination of the U.S. Department of Education. I am not. As the former head of that department — charged myself with its elimination — I don’t want to say bureaucratic organizational charts in D.C. and department names are meaningless. However, those things have precious little to do with what is going on with most families and students.  

Despite the noise and fury around all that, what is actually the signature policy of this time — the key achievement of this administration and Congress — is the newly enacted federal tax credit scholarship program. In a nutshell, every taxpayer who owes federal taxes in America will be able to make a choice starting in 2027. Either send $1,700 in taxes to the swamp to do whatever it is they do with it, or donate $1,700 to a non-profit Scholarship Granting Organization (SGO), which in turn must give out 90% of those funds to students (in families earning no more than 300% of the area median income) for scholarships to fund all kinds of educational programming.  

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