NYC Public School Parents: Another ridiculous report from the corporate reformers on HS "choice"

NYC Public School Parents: Another ridiculous report from the corporate reformers on HS "choice":

Another ridiculous report from the corporate reformers on HS "choice"

by Leonie Haimson

Grover Whitehurst, former official in the US Dept. of Education under George W. Bush, has written a report for Brookings Institute, giving NYC the highest marks for school "choice" (see NYT here; reporthere).

It is true that NYC has hundreds of new high schools, with a catalogso thick it resembles the phone book.

Yet this report ignores that there is nothing more despised by NYC parents than the demanding and complicated HS "choice" process, as reported on in many places, including here.

See also the chart at right from the excellent New Schools study,