Former Small Business Administration Administrator Linda McMahon speaking with attendees at the 2021 Young Women’s Leadership Summit hosted by Turning Point USA at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas.
America’s public education system is collapsing under the weight of politics and bureaucracy.
Students are graduating without understanding how their government functions, what rights they possess, or why those rights exist. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, only 22% of eighth-graders are proficient in U.S. history, and barely half can identify the role of Congress.
Behind those numbers lies a system that traps students in failing schools while denying families the freedom to choose better ones.
YouthVote was founded by The Gateway Pundit’s Gregory Lyakhov to challenge that system. Its mission is not just to educate but to empower—by promoting school choice as the foundation of academic freedom.
When I founded YouthVote—with help from many dedicated people and, more recently, support from The Gateway Pundit—I had the opportunity to speak with Charlie Kirk a few weeks before his passing about how the left is indoctrinating students and why education reform matters.
Following our conversation, he emphasized the importance of advancing school choice nationwide, a mission that remains central to YouthVote and a lasting part of his legacy.
When families have the ability to select where and how their children learn, accountability rises, innovation flourishes, and the monopoly of mediocrity begins to break.
YouthVote advocates for policies that expand charter schools, vouchers, and education savings accounts, ensuring that every student—not just the privileged—can access quality instruction.
Across much of the country, parents have no control over their child’s education. Students are often confined to schools defined by their ZIP code rather than their potential.
The result is a generation of young Americans who memorize slogans but cannot explain the First Amendment, repeat political narratives but cannot engage in open debate.
School choice directly confronts that failure by providing students with environments that foster curiosity, civic literacy, and critical thinking.
YouthVote takes that vision further. Through investigative journalism, classroom partnerships, and civic workshops, it introduces students to the real-world implications of policy—showing how education funding, local elections, and curriculum standards shape their lives.
Each report or multimedia project highlights examples of states where school choice is working, such as Florida’s scholarship programs, Arizona’s universal Education Savings Accounts, and the charter networks that consistently outperform district schools in reading and math.
These models prove that success comes not from centralization, but from competition and parental involvement.
The need for reform extends beyond academics. When public schools downplay American history or neglect Holocaust education, they erode the moral foundation of civic responsibility.
A 2020 survey found that 63% of young Americans were unaware that six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. Such ignorance stems from a system that treats history as optional. School choice enables communities to preserve cultural and moral education, ensuring that lessons about freedom, faith, and humanity are not lost to ideology.
YouthVote believes education should serve truth, not politics. By giving families the freedom to choose, it helps build a generation capable of reasoned thought rather than partisan obedience.
Tens of thousands of students now engage with YouthVote, drawn to an alternative that values independence over indoctrination.
They come from different schools, states, and backgrounds, united by one conviction—that education should prepare them to think critically, not conform blindly.
If America’s youth are to lead this nation twenty-five years from now, they must first learn in schools that encourage leadership.
School choice is not merely a policy debate—it is a fight for the country’s survival.
Without it, students remain hostages to a system that long ago stopped teaching. With it, they gain the power to learn, to question, and to build the future that public education forgot.
WATCH: More on how school choice should be implemented in the U.S. on this week’s episode of The Patriot Perspective.
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