“Shake up failed school bureaucracies with competition”
We are excited to see education- specifically school choice- become a key issue in the 2008 Presidential Election. Last night, Senator John McCain rallied the crowd with calls to radically reform education in this country, raising the question “Equal access to public education has been gained. But what is the value of access to a failing school?”
He went on to state his intentions to shake up the system, introduce competition and empower parents in order to make sure our schools “answer to parents and students.”
Senator McCain is right, education is the “civil rights issue of this century,” and we owe it to all students to do more to provide real reforms, and not simply cover up our problems with old solutions that aren’t working.
Read more on Senator McCain’s position on education reform here.
