Friday, July 15, 2005
The Need For School Choice
On the heels of my email to the Washington Post reporters is an excellent column by David Salisbury and John Merrifield on the need for real school choice as a means of improving public education:
Incremental reforms in America's school system will do nothing -- or worse than nothing -- unless reformers attack the problem at the root, which is the bureaucratic and political control of schools. The solution is to open the schools up to consumer choice and competition with private schools, allowing parents to choose the schools that they think are best for their children.Read more.