School Choice

“School voucher programs, in which parents use public funds to educate their children at private schools, are on a roller coaster this summer.”



“Nineteen states have passed various school choice laws during the 2011/2012 state legislative sessions, helping triple the available funding for vouchers and tax credit scholarships during the past five school years. In Indiana and elsewhere where such programs exist, enrollment in Christian private schools has seen a surge.”



http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240531119032857045765576103520198… “…consider the latest crime to spread across the country: educational theft. That’s the charge that has landed several parents, such as Ohio’s Kelley Williams-Bolar, in jail this year.”

http://www.worldmag.com/articles/18502 ]”From tightening budgets to growing charter schools, slow moving trends are changing American public education”