For the past two years as Colorado state director of the conservative political group Americans For Prosperity, has advocated at the statehouse and the ballot box for free-market policies, including .
Now, Fields is taking on a larger role with the organization, which grew out of the Tea Party movement and is backed by the billionaire Koch brothers.
Fields’ new role helping Americans For Prosperity push school choice nationwide comes as the nation is having a renewed conversation about the issue. President Donald Trump and his education secretary, , have pitched a federal program, which could provide vouchers to some students to use for private school tuition.
Colorado Chalkbeat asked Fields, a Teach for America alum who taught in the Denver suburb of Aurora, about his thoughts on the plan and whatap next for charter schools in Colorado and across the nation.
Why is education reform important to Americans for Prosperity?
Answer: Education is the starting block for the rest of society. And right now, we’re creating a two-tiered society. Some people get a great education, they’re lined up for a job. But there is a whole group of people who have the deck stacked against them. Itap harder than itap ever been to get from the bottom to the top in America.
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