Submission + - Campaign Site Touts Trump as the K-12 Computer Science Education President
The Trump campaign countered that message Thursday with a news release on Improving Education and Protecting Parents' Rights, arguing that "Joe Biden's Education Department is more focused on social justice indoctrination than teaching students. President Donald J. Trump protected the rights of parents and ensured children have every opportunity to receive the best education possible." The press release boasts that President Trump "allocated no less than $200 million each year in grants to prioritize women and minorities in [K-12] STEM and computer science education," a reference to a 2017 Presidential memorandum that Microsoft President Brad Smith later credited to a deal struck with Trump's daughter Ivanka, a Presidential advisor ("She said she would work to secure $1 billion of federal support over five years if the tech sector would pledge $300 million during the same time," Smith explained in his 2019 book Tools and Weapons).
Interestingly, Hillary Clinton branded herself as the K-12 CS presidential candidate in her unsuccessful 2016 campaign against Trump, vowing to "provide every student in America an opportunity to learn computer science" and to "engage the private sector and nonprofits to train up to 50,000 computer science teachers in the next decade."
So, are reports that computer science wins elections greatly exaggerated?