How School Choice Has Changed the Face of Public Schools
Posted: Sunday, March 27, 2011 2:50 pm |Updated: 7:59 am, Mon Mar 28, 2011.
Once upon a time, you just went to the public school down the street in your neighborhood. That was how Karen Calderon remembered it. But choosing a school for her son was anything but simple.
Her neighbors warned her about iffy scores at their nearby Clairemont school. So she scoped out other schools, gauging their test scores, what time they started, which middle schools they fed into. Calderon toured five schools and wrestled with her choice, changing her mind over and over.
Even now she wonders if she asked the right questions. Calderon snagged a spot