Commentary: With school choice, what s the end game?
Cameron Vickrey, For the Express-News
April 3, 2021
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Let’s have a serious conversation about the purpose of school choice.
A recent Senate Committee on Education hearing in the Texas Legislature revealed a fundamental divergence in our state’s philosophy of education. One senator admitted proudly the reason Texas has charter schools is to provide “pure choice.”
Pure choice is not the prevailing narrative that we have been told. Many public school supporters have made concessions for charter schools so kids who are “stuck in failing schools” have an affordable alternative. But now we know this is not the end game. The end game is simply choice.
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