'Opponents of school choice seek to undermine it with a falsehood just as state legislatures gather to vote on choice proposals,' Jay P Greene & Jason Bedrick write.
s school choice sweeps across the country, opponents are getting more desperate in their attempts to stem the tide. Like those who springin presidential campaigns, aiming to derail candidates with false but confidently expressed last-minute accusations, opponents of school choice seek to undermine it with a falsehood just as state legislatures gather to vote on choice proposals.
Let’s leave aside the fact that all families pay taxes and so all deserve greater control over how those resources are used to educate their own children. As education freedom advocate Corey DeAngelis reminds us, we shouldAnd let’s also ignore the insulting assumption that parents who struggle to pay private school tuition, even as they pay taxes for a public school they don’t use, are somehow unworthy of relief from this double financial burden.
The true rates of choice students who were “already in private school” are less than half as large as Cowen claims in those states. Cowen arrives at his inflated figures only by using outdated information and wrongly assuming that all students without a record of prior enrollment in a public school in the state must have been in private school previously.
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