School Choice Gains Ground

Pajamas Media ^ | July 8 | Greg Forster

[AJKauf]

Some people think it’s been all bad news for school choice this year. Well, it’s all bad news if you follow the standard procedure of only paying attention to the bad news. But last month, the movement scored a big win: Indiana enacted a $2.5 million choice program, the state’s first. And if you take a broader view, you’ll see there was other good news for school choice along with the bad in the 2009 legislative season.

This is important because we’ve seen some people occasionally seize on any piece of bad news as an excuse to declare vouchers politically dead. It’s an easy way to avoid taking a stand on the issue, and in some of the more egomaniacal cases, to show the world how amazingly cool and above it all you are.

We’re seeing more of this squishy triangulation tactic as the public has become increasingly disillusioned about the prospects of reforming the education monopoly from within. Five years ago, politicians and other opportunists who didn’t want to to...

[MuttTheHoople]

True, High School students from other developed nations perform better on tests than American kids do, but where do those foreign students go when they want a top notch education? AMERICAN COLLEGES.

The American University system is the ultimate model for "school choice". Nobody forces HS graduates to go to a certain school, public or private.

[handy old one]

Just the billfold!