The conservative premise that a market-based education system is best is wrong. Apparently, Keegan believes that once you give parents a choice about where they can send their kids to school, all educational problems are solved. There are structural problems that public choice programs do not solve. Instead of trying to fight the root of the problem impoverished neighborhoods and cycles of poverty vouchers will only allow the most privileged students to truly have control over where they go to school. A single-parent welfare family with many children will probably not be able to get out of their neighborhood in order to find a better school.
Poor schools exist in poor neighborhoods.
And poor neighborhoods are the key problem that Keegan's agenda does nothing to solve. Simply taking a few lucky kids out of a bad neighborhood does not get to the root of the nation's education problem. Students should not have to move anywhere in order to receive a good public education. The goal is to make all public schools good, to improve the system as it is. She is clearly a spokesperson for the Republican agenda for education.