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How "Schools of Choice" Can Improve the Public School System.
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Harley, Kevin – 1989
Public "schools of choice" refers to a new trend in educational policy that involves various forms of competition and choice. The initiatives of individual states range from authorizing magnet schools to allowing parents to send children to neighboring school districts. What these programs have in common is that parents, as consumers of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Free Choice Transfer Programs