How COVID-19 could force lawmakers to broaden K-12 school choice
Many families don’t want to return to conventional K-12 schooling.
By William Mattox
If Texas legislators do not soon embrace new approaches to K-12 education, Texas could easily fall further behind its Sun Belt rivals in attracting education-minded newcomers to the state. And COVID-19 would be partly to blame.
When I speak of new or unusual education approaches in K-12, I’m not referring to forms of education that lack merit. Or that fail to produce excellence. Quite the contrary. I’m referring instead to innovative forms of education being discovered during the pandemic by a growing number of highly competent parents around the country.