School choice

School choice is the slogan of a U.S. movement to give parents more say in which primary and secondary schools their children attend. The movement hopes that increased choice will cause more fierce competition between different schools, and thereby raise the overall quality of education.

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U.S. - Primary - Secondary - Competition

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School choice proponents differ in the extent to which they advocate privatization. Some do not advocate privatization at all, wishing only to allow parents greater choice among different public schools within a district. Others seek to grant parents the option of either spending vouchers at a (possibly parochial) private school or of obtaining tax credits for the same. Usually, those advocates of the latter schemes suggest that public schools not receive funding for those pupils who did not choose to attend public schools. A few school choice proponents call for the complete elimination of government funding of education, ie total privatization of the educational sector.

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Privatization - Public school - Voucher

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See Charter schools or Alternative schools for another American idea for providing school choice options to parents.

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Charter schools - Alternative schools

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