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Friday Freakout: Does School Choice Increase Inequality?

Does School Choice Increase Inequality?

When Nevada enacted the nation’s first nearly universal education savings accounts (ESAs), education reformers celebrated. ESAs empower families to tailor their children’s education to meet their individual learning needs and have the potential to unleash a wave of innovation. Others, however, have been less enthusiastic. Perhaps the most common concern is the one raised recently […]

Does School Choice Rob from the Poor to Give to the Rich?

school choice rob from the poor

“…[I]t may surprise you to learn that in a growing number of states, legislators are setting aside public money to pay for private school tuition – and rich people are benefiting,” Valerie Strauss wrote last year on The Washington Post’s website.  Actually, the WaPo education writer’s class-warfare demagoguery should surprise readers more, particularly when it is […]