It is like saying there has been a plane crash. It s time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody s role is spelled out in advance, and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. They want alternatives, and seeing none in our rigid system, they are willing and some even desperate to look elsewhere. If you re in an under-achieving school, then you have a right to seek a voucher to go to a school where you can be guaranteed some level of achievement. We must continue the work my father began.
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