Initiatives in the
US around School Choice offer a wealth of insights into ways we can support the transformation of educational funding.
Could progressives capitalize on DeVos's
rhetoric around school choice — particularly, the compelling need to liberate kids from struggling, high - poverty schools — to encourage choice within the public - school system that is designed to bring children of different backgrounds together?
While the strength of the theoretical
arguments around school choice are uncertain, our results are quite clear: Access to private schooling around the world enhances the lives of individual students and the societies in which they reside.
Students at Yadkin Valley Community School, a private Montessori School in Elkin,
crowd around school choice advocate Darrell Allison in celebration of National School Choice Week.
«Or is it going to [be up to] ordinary voters — Republicans who agree 80 percent on the Speaker selection, migration from [reliance on] property tax or 80 percent who agree with
issues around school choice?»
-- «Lots of the opposition to DeVos
centered around school choice — but the U.S. Secretary of Education is not an influential position for school choice policy,» said Nora Gordon, a Georgetown University professor and education expert.