New School Choice Timeline: Equality for Diverse People

Neal McCluskeyIt seems like no matter where you live, you don ’t have to look far to see your fellow Americans fighting over whose values, histories, and more will be taught in public schools. They’re fighting over Advanced Placement African American Studiesin Florida. Gender identityin Texas. Sex educationin New Jersey. Merit and equityin Virginia. Native American historyin South Dakota. Ethnic studiesin California. Andon it goes.The institution that was supposed to foster unity among diverse people – public schooling – is instead a constant battleground. Why? Because it leaves people with opposed values little option but to battle for supremacy. And the losers either fail to get what they believe their children need with the tax money they are required to pay, get something unwanted impos ed on their children, or both.Enabling all diverse people to access the education they believe is right, but that others might find unacceptable, is a  major argument for school choice, and one that Cato CEFhas long emphasized. It is also a  major reason that people have advocated for education funds to either follow children to chosen schools, or go directly to diverse institutions, for more than two centuries, as you can see in a new resource officially launching today: Cato’sSchool Choice Timeline.The Timeline, which features dates, descriptions, and links to deeper reading on the history of school choice, is needed first and foremost so that people can see the evolution o...

Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 23, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Neal McCluskey Source Type: blogs