School Choice as a Public Policy: Change in Educational Reform
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Authors
Harris, Joel A.
Issue Date
1993
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Thesis
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en_US
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I decided to focus on the issue of school
choice. There are several variations of school choice programs, as I will
explain later, but more specifically I found the topic appealing because
education reform seems unavoidable. Cries of an unjust system
resonate from rural as well as urban districts and come from all races,
but those who have the poorest facilities and greatest need for change
are predominantly individuals from lower socioeconomic classes. There
is good reason to believe that many children are denied a quality
education simply because they come from a disadvantaged background.
If their needs are not met, they will certainly become alienated and
disenfranchised. Given this fact, we are obligated to enhance our public
educational system. If we assume the current system has contributed
to declines in educational quality, then we must look for new solutions
to these problems. School Choice is the most popular alternative to the
current system and is widely debated by politicians as well as the
academic community.
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