School choice has a year of victories, but politicians must learn from parents to go big or go home in 2023
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School choice has a strong year of victories, but parents demand politicians go big or go home in 2023 to start fixing America’s failed education system.
Nathan Cunneen is a communications strategist at the American Federation for Children and a former beneficiary of school choice programs.
Widespread public interest in school choice is long overdue. Since the establishment of the first American public school in 1839, education is the least-reformed institution in the entire American political experiment. Our classrooms are modeled to train industrial workers, and our calendar still follows long-abandoned agrarian cycles. Far worse, our existing system is flagrant discrimination by ZIP code, and a one-size-fits-all system will never serve the needs of every student. Meanwhile, the success of school choice around the country is indisputable.