Interesting today in the edublogisphere on issues of school
choice. Read Eduwonk,
PublicCharters,
and NCLBlog.
These bloggers may be onto something important in education policy. Many
education policy folks are now concluding that school choice is politically
here to stay, so the issue becomes ... how much, in what forms, etc…. instead
of the past question of whither at all? This will be very interesting waters
for the Democratic presidential candidates come next election and an issue
where the candidates are likely to differ. Of course, this is an extremely
important issue because it gets to the very nature of public education, and
whether it has to be public at all. Keep this on your radar over the next few
months and years because it seems the staunch opponents of school choice are
beginning to back down to attempting to manage school choice.