Ryan makes case for school
choice
The Foundry – 10/25/2012 – Lindsey
Burke
Millions of children pass through
our nation’s broken public schools year after year. Too many of those children
have no other choice. Confined by their parent’s zip codes and economic means,
they are assigned to government schools, where, in some of our nation’s largest
cities, they are just as likely to drop out as they are to
graduate.
Providing those children with a
choice isn’t a radical idea: School choice means funding children instead of
institutions and allowing dollars to follow them to educational options that
best meet their unique learning needs. But no matter how common-sense school
choice might seem, the usual suspects—special interest groups concerned with
maintaining a self-serving status quo—will try to stand in the way. As Ryan
noted:
The special
interests that dominate this system always seem to have their own futures lined
up pretty nicely. But when you think about the future of the young adults that
the system has failed, many will face a lot of grief and disappointment—and
their country owes them better than that.
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