Friday, March 03, 2006
School choice - In Minneapolis
By the way, it's school choice day on this blog...
In the Wall Street Opinion Journal, Katherine Kersten discusses school choice:
"Louis King, a black leader who served on the Minneapolis School Board from 1996 to 2000, puts it bluntly: 'Today, I can't recommend in good conscience that an African-American family send their children to the Minneapolis public schools. The facts are irrefutable: These schools are not preparing our children to compete in the world.' Mr. King's advice? 'The best way to get attention is not to protest, but to shop somewhere else.'"
"Minneapolis families seeking to escape troubled schools are fortunate to have the options they do. That's not the case in many other states, where artificial barriers--from enrollment caps to severe underfunding--have stymied the growth of charter schools."
