Public schools today have an education monopoly - often locking in parents who cannot either move or afford private school tuition. Facing very little competition, public schools have little incentive to improve their performance. My amendment addresses this very real problem. Empowering parents with education options will create an incentive structure for schools to attract and retain students by providing a quality education. If a school fails in this task, parents will abandon it, taking their money with them.
American families agree.
A recent poll found that 2 out of 3 Americans support the president's proposal giving parents the option to send their child to a better-performing school. For whatever reason, the liberal elite continues to deny low-income parents a way out. This isn't an issue of changing schools that work. It's about fixing schools that fail. It's not as if school choice is an untested concept.