Published On: June 7th, 2016|
The American Enterprise Institute – Gerard Robinson
Yesterday, I released a report on the role of rights and responsibilities in education laws across the United States. In it, I argue that if states want school choice truly to work, they must turn a critical eye to how laws treat parents, how they invite them into the lifelong process of a child’s schooling, and how they call equal attention to parental rights and responsibilities. Since the 1990s, the school choice movement has created incredible opportunity for many children and families across America. Yet policy is only half of the equation. In recent years, school choice advocates have begun to put their finger on the other half: the family. This makes a great deal of sense.(more)