Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Is School Choice the Right Choice?


Is School Choice the Right Choice?:

"Recently, Dallas Disability Examiner Steve Carter wrote about how public schools are more likely to pay for private school for students with disabilities based upon a Supreme Court decision. In its decision, the Supreme Court said that parents of students with disabilities had a right to seek reimbursement from school districts for private school tuition, “even if they did not first try their public school’s education programs.” While this seems like a win for parents, parents must first pay the cost of tuition before seeking reimbursement.

After reading that article and another article published last month in the Washington Post about the impact of charter schools, I felt that it brought up a good question – while being the never ending angst for teacher unions, should parents of students with disabilities embrace the public policy issue of school choice as a benefit for their children?"