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Labels: Charter schools, Education, School choice
Has the National Governors Association gone pro-school choice? The Alliance for School Choice says yes, with this announcement:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Aug. 29, 2005
Contact: Laura Devany
602-468-0900/ 602-615-8897 (cell)
NATIONAL GOVERNOR'S ASSOCIATION REPORT RECOMMENDS GREATER SCHOOL CHOICE
New Report Encourages Tuition Assistance for Private Schools
PHOENIX - A bipartisan task force of the nation's governors, has issued a best practices guide for their colleagues recommending states expand the range of educational choices available for families by embracing charter schools, virtual schools and tuition assistance for private schools.
"Increasingly, policy leaders are concluding that providing quality education options can raise student achievement and improve existing schools," states the report released this month. "Given the slow pace of achievement and graduation rate improvements, many policy makers have concluded that assisting public schools and assessing the results are not enough. These policymakers have begun giving families and students greater choices in education options."
These recommendations, which, according to the report's authors, should be considered as part of a coherent and comprehensive public education system, include offering tuition assistance for choice participation. The report states, "By providing state tax or financial assistance for students to attend private or parochial K-12 schools.... more students can access these options."
The report states that greater school choice can help meet the goals of:
* higher graduation rates,
* meet No Child Left Behind Act requirements to offer choice options,
* encourage innovation and improvement across the education system,
* satisfy parental demands for options, and
* reduce segregation by race and income.
"School choice is moving into the mainstream of American politics, as reflected by growing bipartisan support. Serious policymakers recognize that a conversation that doesn't include school choice is not a conversation about meaningful education reform," declared Clint Bolick, president and general counsel of the Alliance for School Choice, the Phoenix-based organization that leads the national effort to support school choice programs to expand opportunities for disadvantaged schoolchildren.
The governors who issued the report are: Janet Napolitano (Ariz.), Tim Pawlenty (Minn.), Haley Barbour (Miss.), Bill Richardson (N.M.), Mark Sanford (S.C.) and Jon Huntsman (Utah). Five of the six governors have advocated or signed bills providing private school choice options. Read the full report at: http://www.nga.org/Files/pdf/EDUCATIONCHOICE.PDF.
The sixth, presumably, is Gov. Napolitano, who vetoed school choice measures earlier this year.
"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve
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