School choice should empower parents to select education options that align with their values, but many charter schools fail in this regard, experts warn.
“School choice should yield schools with values that are aligned with those of parents,” Jay Greene, senior research fellow in the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy, told The Daily Signal in a statement Tuesday. Charter schools fail to do this because they represent a “constrained type of school choice.”
Charters require state approval “to open and operate,” and they usually need funding from big philanthropies to obtain buildings, Greene added.
Greene, along with Heritage education Research Fellow Jason Bedrick and Education Freedom Institute Senior Fellow Ian Kingsbury, published a report Monday comparing charter schools unfavorably with fully private school choice…
