Everything else has been tried; the only remaining answer is school choice, made available not only to the rich through private schools, but to the working class and the poor through vouchers and charter schools. It's something that liberals and conservatives can and should agree on, before more generations of inner-city kids grow up without decent educations or training to enable them to live decent and productive lives.
What's true for New York is true for Detroit, Chicago, and many other inner cities, as well as many suburbs and even rural school districts. Parents should have a right to a decent education for their children, and where that is not available in the public schools they should be empowered to find an alternative at reasonable cost.
"School Choice 2000" provides interested parents and motivated educators with the information they need to get started, without having to re-invent the wheel. If the purpose of education is to benefit our children, and to benefit the society they will one day join as adults, then it's hard to see why anyone would oppose the freedom to choose the best education possible for our children.
What do you know about your states'school expenditures or academic performance? What school choices do you have in your state? Ms. Rees gives the most up-to-date, detailed information about each state and its school choice status including: expenditures -- per pupil costs,and teachers salaries; percentages of government funding; academic achievement; public and private school enrollment. She also includes a brief historical background of school choice for each state.
Do you want to know where your state legislator stands on school choice legislation? Do you want to know more about the what all the school choice terms mean? Are you interested in finding out about organizations that support school choice? School Choice 2000 will answer all these questions and give you the resources to answer all the questions you may have about school choice in America.
If you are interested or curious about school choice as means of reform in the US then you should read this valuable, most up-to-date source of the status of choice in our country.