Issues
School Choice
The education system in the United States has long struggled to improve the performance of students across the board. Unfortunately, America’s public school monopoly is designed to serve the interests of education bureaucrats and teachers unions rather than the needs of students. School choice allows the same principles that drive success in free economies to be applied to the public school monopoly. School choice would allow students to attend school based on factors and qualities that appeal to the student and the parents, instead of being assigned a school based on zip code or bureaucratic mandate. School choice would promote success by forcing schools to compete with one another in order to attract students, providing a real choice for all families, not just those who can afford a private education. This basic application of proven free market principles would not only solve the woes of the American education system but would also wrestle control of education away from self-serving teachers unions and the bloated bureaucracy, putting the choice back into the hands of the parents and where it belongs.
