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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Last Stand for Children First: Celebrate School Choice Week

Last Stand for Children First: Celebrate School Choice Week:

Celebrate School Choice Week

This week is school choice week. This is one week we celebrate the right of charter schools to choose which students they will teach and which ones will be counseled out. I believe preserving that right for charter schools may well be the civil rights issue of our time.

In many cities, there are tremendous private schools, but those schools are always at a disadvantage because parents are forced to pay nearly the entire cost of their child's education out of their own pocket. What makes