An estimated 2,000 families gathered in New Orleans over the weekend to kick off “School Choice Week.” The week is being echoed in 400 other events in all 50 states.
Comedian Bill Cosby supports School Choice. He noted:
I strongly support National School Choice Week because all children in America should be able to access the best schools possible. We have a moral and societal obligation to give our children the opportunity to succeed in school, at work, and in life. We cannot meet that obligation unless parents are empowered to select the best schools of their children. I encourage everyone who wants to see a transformation of American education to get involved in National School Choice Week.
In 2011, 12 states and the District of Columbia expanded or enacted school choice options. These include vouchers, tax credits, homeschooling, online learning, and education savings accounts.
Heritage Foundation reports:
That expansion of school choice came after what appeared to be ominous news for some of America’s schoolchildren in 2009 and 2010. In Washington, D.C., home to some of the country’s most dangerous and under-performing schools, families of low-income children received vouchers through the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, giving them a chance to choose a brighter educational future. That light of hope, though, was about to be extinguished when Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) inserted a provision in a 2009 spending bill that would have ended the program. That changed, though, when the Tea Party revolution came to Congress, bringing with it a new movement toward school choice. In early 2011, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) successfully fought for the reauthorization of the D.C. scholarship program, ensuring that those families continued to have a choice in education.
Learn more about School Choice Week at the Heritage Foundation and the School Choice Week web site.
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