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School Choice Getting “Short Shrift” in State Plans?

School Choice Getting “Short Shrift” in State Plans?

April 24, 2018

Alyson Klein reports for Education Week that while school choice may be “having a big moment in K-12 policy,” you would “never know it from reading” state ESSA plans. An Education Week review of all state plans reveals “that few are taking advantage of the handful of opportunities ESSA offers to expand, lay the groundwork for, or take advantage of existing choice programs.”