The Choice Channel

“Educational choice refers to parents’ rights to choose their child’s educational environment without financial penalty. Educational choice is a funding policy, not another teaching or schooling reform. Any rational schooling method can be pursued under educational choice. Though such choice can take different forms — vouchers, certificates, tax credits, for example — its essence is simple: it enables parents to allocate educational tax dollars to the educational provider they think best for their child. While well-to-do Americans already have choice by private means, all Americans, especially the poor, would directly benefit from educational choice funding. This contrasts with the current educational finance monopoly, in which state and public school bureaucracies assign all tax funds without parental choice. Under educational finance monopoly, parents’ rights do not match their responsibilities.” (1998)