Education News – Robert Enlow
“…most students are assigned a school based solely on their address. If a child is born to a middle class family, that family often moves to a neighborhood with a good school. Affluent families also do the same, choosing the finest public or schools or private schools in their state. But for poor and working class families, families with one adult at home, or families where a parent is sick or can’t work, they are stuck with the school assigned to them, whether it works or not. There is a solution; a solution not only to poor quality education but also to the other issues of income inequality, wage disparity and civil unrest. And that solution is school choice…As long ago as 1955, Nobel economist Milton Friedman was concerned that K-12 education in America was failing in responsibility to help those less fortunate. The founder of the school choice concept said, “The education, or rather the uneducation, of black children from low income families is undoubtedly the greatest disaster area in public education and its most devastating failure. This is doubly tragic for it has always been the official ethic of public schooling that it was the poor and the oppressed who were its greatest beneficiaries.””(more)