For decades educational reformers have identified school choice programs as a strategy for restructuring public school systems.Practically every state has considered or adopted a school assignment program that qualifies as a "choice" initiative, one in which students crd parents have some choice in school selection. Increasingly, school districts are contemplating plans that include a choice of private, as welt as pubtic, schoots.
One of the most far-reaching of these schoot choice ptans is the Milwaukee (Wisconsiri) Parentat Choice Program, which, as tegistated, allows parents to use vouchers to enrott their children in both sectarian and nonsectarian schoots in the community. This paper explores the evolution of school choice in Milwaukee and examines the extent to which school choice is representative of other privatization efforts currently under way in the United States.
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