Op-ed: Is School Choice a conservative idea - or a progressive long-game?

The following op-ed was submitted by Carrie Bertrand. Carrie is the Grady County Republican Party Chairman, a founding board member of the Constitutional Home Educators Alliance, and homeschooled two children for eighteen years. Is School Choice a conservative idea or a progressive long-game? How could any thinking person oppose “school choice?” – or so goes the familiar argument.  The debate continues this year, like last, in the Republican-majority state legislative session just begun, as school choice – also known as school vouchers, and Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) – stirs intense conflict. The Left opposes school vouchers because they take money from public school funding; true conservatives don’t like vouchers because they expand government and threaten the autonomy of private and home education. Read more » by Jamison Faught - February 08, 2023 at 12:00PM

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