💬 Opinion 4h ago · Ian Kingsbury

Let Charter Schools be as Flexible as Microschools

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Let Charter Schools be as Flexible as Microschools
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In a 2001 interview, economist Milton Friedman was pressed to reflect on the vision of a universal school voucher system, an idea he had popularized 46 years earlier. At the time of his interview, progress toward that vision was tepid. Some states or districts operated limited, means-tested voucher programs, and only about 1 percent of public school students were enrolled in charter schools. "Charter schools are a halfway house," Friedman said. "They are still government schools."
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