Would school choice help make US public schools better?

I hear discourse that one way to improve the quality of public schools is to encourage school choice. Let parents send their kids to the best schools and allow competition to incentive public schools to clean up their act and compete for students. Since some students are stuck going to crappy public schools due to their zip code, school choice allows parents through vouchers to send their kids to a better school if the school within their own neighborhood isn’t providing the best kind of education. It’s like the market economy.

Is this a good idea? Would it actually improve public schools? It is frustrating that reforms in education are difficult to come through since the government essentially has a monopoly on education. Buy giving public schools some skin in the game, could that help them get better?

Submitted September 08, 2022 at 08:08AM by wonderfulworld25 https://ift.tt/ljQGf51