There has been some breathless reporting lately that private school choice programs, often referred to as a conservative Republican scheme, are leading to declining public school enrollment across the nation.

A recent article in The Washington Post decried the low-income Black and Hispanic parents who abandoned their low-performing public school in south Phoenix to enroll their children at a charter school, a private school, or a nearby public school. How dare they kill their neighborhood school?

A New York Times reporter talked to mostly working-class Black and Hispanic parents in Orlando, Florida, and discovered that they wanted access to public and private school choice for two reasons: academic rigor and the safety of their children. They must be right-wing operatives out to get teac

See Full Page