Credit Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Chancellor Joel I. Klein forimplementing an innovative education idea: giving parents thechance to grade their kids' schools. Earlier this year, the citygovernment sent the first "Learning Environment Survey" to 1.8million parents, students, and teachers in the public school systemto provide customer feedback.
No one school can serve all students equally well. Ultimately,school choice is about enabling all parents to enroll theirchildren in the public, public charter, private, or home schoolsthat best meet their individual needs. School choice maximizes thebenefits of America's sizable investment in education to ensurethat all children have an opportunity to succeed.