He added that after stopping policies allowing abortion up until birth “creating the culture of life is how we win and are successful in saving more lives.”
Scott recently released an education plan that would give more control to parents and broaden school choice. He told Rosales that he sees the issue of education as “a state and local issue.”
“The federal government provides two major buckets of resources: one is Title I for failing and challenging schools, Title II for kids with special needs. I would make both of those buckets of dollars portable,” he said. “Wherever the kid goes, the money follows. There’s no question that quality education is really important and frankly, as a result of COVID we saw kids trapped and out of the classroom.”
He went on to praise Catholic schools for their approach to the COVID pandemic.
“The largest drop in test scores in American history came because of COVID, but the Catholic schools saw their numbers stay steady or even improve,” he said. “That drastic contrast is alive for every American to see and we want more quality education, and I can’t think of a better example of that right now in America than Catholic schools.”
Another issue he touched on in the interview was how he would address the immigration crisis at the southern border. Scott said that “without a southern border, we will lose our country” and backed “a smart wall with the kind of technology that sees the tunnels below and the activities above.”