School choice advocates promised students a better education. They haven't delivered.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : If we all did a better job of that - if we committed ourselves to mining for the gold of student curiosity and intellectual hunger - then there might, ultimately, no longer be any schools that parents and students would wish to avoid.
50% : Charter schools, another form of educational choice, use tax dollars to create even more alternatives.
49% : The concept originated as a way for experienced teachers to extricate from the often ill-conceived and capricious mandates of school boards and superintendents, but the majority of charter schools are run by organizations with the same kinds of hierarchical leadership as traditional public schools.
49% : In fact, charter schools serve a higher percentage of children of color than traditional public schools do.

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