Elizabeth Warren Caught Lying to School Choice Advocates at Campaign Event

Elizabeth Warren is caught in yet another lie about her past. In a meeting with protestors after an event yesterday, Warren said that her children went to public school. Yet, The Daily Caller reported that Elizabeth Warren sent her son to private school. 

The Daily Caller: “…[S]he chose to send her son Alexander to Kirby Hall, an elite private school near Austin. Tuition for Kirby Hall’s lower and middle schools — kindergarten through eighth grade — is $14,995 for the 2019-2020 school year. A year of high school costs $17,875.”

Warren released an education plan earlier this year. The plan contains a clear flip-flop from her own 2003 book “The Two-Income Trap.”

Elizabeth Warren: “We should stop the diversion of public dollars from traditional public schools through vouchers or tuition tax credits – which are vouchers by another name.”

But…in her 2003 book “The Two-Income Trap,” Warren has very different thoughts on vouchers. 

The WSJ has an excerpt from the book that discusses vouchers here.

WSJ: “But the public-versus-private competition misses the central point. The problem is not vouchers; the problem is parental choice. Under current voucher schemes, children who do not use the vouchers are still assigned to public schools based on their zip codes. This means that in the overwhelming majority of cases, a bureaucrat picks the child’s school, not a parent.”

Warren continued to support school choice during her 2012 Senate campaign. In a May 2011 interview, Warren said school vouchers would increase competition among schools and offer “the kind of education that really produces results and parents can buy into and believe in.”