We MUST reorder our priorities. Today, let's endeavor to put partisan bickering aside and truly discuss how we can immediately respond to the concerns of parents who actually fear for the safety of their children in the public schools, but are given no other alternatives. System denying opportunities and utterly broken in many communities, particularly in the inner city. Filled with drugs, violence and general disorder. We all recognize that the status quo has failed Various alternatives have been proposed, with many being adopted and later discarded over the last thirty years.
School choice is one of the most intriguing and controversial.
School choice has really begun to gain momentum in the last few years and we are here today to look at what's taking place around the country, in publicly funded scholarship programs as well as privately funded scholarship programs.