Indeed, in every «Blaine» state in which the legislature
attempts school choice reform through statute, lawyers will have to persuade their state supreme court to interpret these old provisions in a manner that respects the legislative and popular will.
Not exact matches
If
choice has yet to provide the definitive word on
school reform, the governmental rearrangements conventionally
attempted hardly seem more attractive.
The President's America 2000 plan has been alternately characterized as a political agenda, a strategy for
reforming public
schools, a call to involve the private sector, an
attempt to bring
choice into the educational arena, and a crusade.
Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a Washington - based education advocacy group, said the family will face a tough
choice among public, private and charter
schools in a city where
attempts at education
reform have become symbolic of the issue nationwide.
New Hampshire has been quite successful in its
attempts to
reform due to a core recognition of the necessity of
school choice and the rejection of a «one size fits all» approach to education.
We have been on the forefront of
reforms such as budget decentralization,
school - to - work, neighborhood
schools, parental
choice, charter
schools and, the most recent
attempt, governance
reform.