Commentary

America Still Needs School Choice

By Ben Boychuk
Thursday, January 21 2016

Next week is National School Choice Week. Now in its sixth year, the event — really, 16,140 events spread across all 50 states — is meant to celebrate a range of educational options for parents and kids and shine a bright light on places where those options are few and far between. We live at a time when you can order more than 80,000 combinations of coffee and espresso at Starbucks, chow on more than 400 variations on a hamburger from the “secret menu” at California’s famous In-N-Out Burger chain, and sip from among 1,500 whiskeys from around the world at the Multnomah…

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