Posted by
Billy on Thursday, August 26, 2010 10:41:41 AM
Dr. Vicki Murray is the associate director of education studies at the
Pacific Research Institute (PJI) and director of the Women for
School Choice project at the
Independent Women's Forum (IWF).
She reports that reading levels for fourth-graders in the Sunshine State were
close to the bottom of the barrel a little over a decade ago, but one of the
changes made during that time was to give parents the opportunity to choose the
best school for their children.
"Children who are not doing well or are in failing schools are given
an immediate option to attend another public school that's going to work for
them outside of their assigned district, or they can use scholarships to attend
private schools -- and that includes special needs children, foster care
children, and low-income children," Murray explains.
Now, foster children
and others considered to be "at risk" have made dramatic academic improvements,
allowing Florida to jump into the top five among all states in fourth-grade
reading achievement. (
School choice proves effective )
(Billy's Thoughts>>> School choice will work. I have posted before I want the bad school to close and the bad teachers to find a different line of work. If school choice works should not all parents have a crack at it instead of just the rich ones. President Obama didn't send his children to a failing government school but to a private school but sadly not all parents can afford to do that. We need school choice for those parents.)