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Article: School Choice: A Report Card.(school choice seen as important by parents; school standards evaluated)
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- The World and I
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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The opposition to school choice is losing in the court of public opinion and having to loosen its bureaucratic stranglehold over the nation's schools and students.
Few issues generate as heated a reaction as school choice. Many politicians recognize that offering parents more power over how their children are educated is a powerful message, which is why both Vice President Al Gore and Gov. George W. Bush support the general idea of school choice.
Consider the following facts about education: The United States spends more than 8.2 percent of its GDP on education--a total of $664 billion, $80 billion of which is spent by corporations in the education ...