“[T]he term ‘voucher' has become a dirty word in many educational circles.... The fear is that partial-subsidy vouchers provide a boost so that better-off parents can opt out of a failing public school system, while the other children are left behind… [But] a taxpayer-funded voucher that paid the entire cost of educating a child (not just a partial subsidy) would open a range of opportunities to all children.”
This bold call for transformational education reform came not from some secret cabal of school choice groups, but from the recently unearthed 2004 policy prescriptions of now-Senator Elizabeth Warren. Fifteen years later, this vision is now becoming a reality for families throughout the nation. But educational freedom remains anathema to those who ignore the facts and instead embrace the false conventional “wisdom” that school choice benefits the wealthy at the expense of the poor.
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