Reforms Beyond School Choice: How to Fix The Education System

Link: https://thebulwark.com/to-help-students-quickly-we-have-to-think-beyond-school-choice/

Excerpt: [A]fter decades of expanding school choice programs, the vast majority of American children still attend traditional public schools. It’s time we think of choice and reform differently.

Whether you want to increase funding or not, allocating resources more efficiently and equitably should be a priority. This requires changing state funding formulas so they reallocate more funds to children with additional learning needs and to districts with less local funding. Both sides have something to gain because, in many states, large groups of Democrats and Republicans represent districts that lose out on resources due to state formulas that fail to treat all students equally.

Expanding school choice is a great way to push innovation and change on all these fronts. But that’s not an excuse to be so focused on choice programs that we ignore the policies that impact all schoolchildren.

Submitted December 18, 2019 at 08:40AM by punkthesystem https://ift.tt/2sEOy4S