Is school choice a means or an end?
Up to a certain point schooling is an example of the free market. Any family with financial resources or the...
Read More >School choice restores parental responsibility
The American school system was, from its inception, a product of intolerance for human difference. Grounded in 19th Century religious...
Read More >Father Andrew Greeley, choiceniks’ ally
Editor’s note: Among many other things, Father Andrew Greeley, who passed away last week, was a champion of Catholic schools....
Read More >A modest musing about parental school choice
An expansive power of parents over their own children has been recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court since the 1926...
Read More >Teaching values in schools of choice – and maybe, regulating them
This brief essay is the fifth in a series describing forms of legislation available to any state that considers adopting...
Read More >Admissions rules for voucher schools
This is the fourth in a series of brief observations on the ideal technical design of state systems using “vouchers”...
Read More >The silence of the shepherd
Many of our more public minds oppose aid to families who want, but can’t afford, a non-government school. For working...
Read More >Determining a school voucher’s worth
This is the third in a series of short comments upon the forms of regulation that will best serve the...
Read More >Helping parents decide which school is best
Suppose the mythical state of Arkansota adopts a law providing a subsidy sufficient to support school choice for all families....
Read More >Regulating school vouchers
The gurus of school choice have often shuddered at the word “regulation.” On occasion this instinctive hostility has been tactically...
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