LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A newly elected Lincoln Board of Education member is coming under fire for home-schooling his children, despite his campaign promise to enroll them in public school.

Matt Schulte, who was elected in May, had said on a candidate questionnaire and in interviews with the newspaper that his children would attend Maxey Elementary this fall.

But Schulte said that “after much thought and prayer,” he and his wife decided not to send their second-grade son and kindergarten-aged daughter to public school. Schulte did not expand on his explanation.

Rita Bennett, president of the Lincoln Education Association, says she’s disappointed that Schulte broke his campaign pledge and says his decision to home-school his children “feels like a lack of confidence” in Lincoln’s public schools.