Article Title
Local Autonomy, Educational Equity, and School Choice: Constitutional Criticism of School Reform
Abstract
Many critics of America's public education system hail parental or school choice, a program that allows public school systems to compete against one another and, under some proposals, against private educational institutions, for students and educational funding, as the answer to Americas educational crisis. Proponents argue that competition will force public schools to offer students a quality education or close. This article does not evaluate the claims of the parental-choice proposals; rather, it examines the difficulties inherent in funding such a system through traditional school finance mechanisms.
Recommended Citation
Hilton, James J.
(1994)
"Local Autonomy, Educational Equity, and School Choice: Constitutional Criticism of School Reform,"
New England Journal of Public Policy: Vol. 10:
Iss.
1, Article 26.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/nejpp/vol10/iss1/26
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