School choice is good for families, students and economies. When the Congress seeks ways to fund national priorities, it is wise to consider economic economic power to school choices.
Parents should have freedom to choose the best educational setting for their children because it is right to do. This freedom also comes with bonus benefits, drive economic growth by improving leading results of education and social, not only for selected communities.
We work with parents, students, teachers and school leaders in the national, and the message is clear: people want to choose from school. States have different school selection programs – North Carolina has just expanded the scholarship program, serving 100,000 students in a smaller program of 1,600 participants. However we see its power in the same states, and that is why we need it in every state.
While educational and school subjects are the subjects of our friends and family dinner tables, the economy is also an important issue. It will affect the lives and the country standing at the global stage. School choice brings higher graduation rates, increases college enrollment and decreases crime – each pillar of foundation for continuing improvement.
Graduation rates are one of the most direct links between the education policy and economic results. High school drops get less than their lives and are more likely to rely on public assistance.
School choice programs are often shown to increase high school graduation rates, especially with unknown communities. For example, studies from Milwaukee and Washington, DC, shows that students participated in school choice programs than their peers in traditional schools. A recent great study of Ohio study appears the same for college. Students are better prepared for a prosperous future, and everyone benefits.
Research has evaluated by education researchers Matthew, David Figlio and Krzysztof Karbown how to enroll in Ohio college receiving college students. More than to analyze the topline, showing students to choose the college of college than their children’s most positive: their children are more positive in the college when they use the Ohio voucher.
These findings agree with those in Florida, which credit credit scholarship brings the increase in college enrollment rates among students to participate in low income.
We see parents’ dream of low income for their children to build a better life. We know that school choice is a path to do that.
In addition, education has long been recognized as a contraction of criminal activity. Youth involved in school and have clear future paths are very much able to make crimes. School choice can give an escape from underperforming or unsafe schools, to put students in environments which discipline, structure, and friendship with the wickedness.
The crime reduction means reducing public expenditure and higher levels of public safety, conditions that attract business investment and community development.
School choice benefits are more pronounced for hispanic students, one of the fastest growing parts of the population. Hispanic families often faced limited choices due to zip code-based tasks based and language, even if a path of high education as a passage of high movement and intensification of the high-moving movement and intensification of the high-moving movement and intensification of the high movement and pursuit of the high movement and intensification of the high-moving and intensification of the high movement and pursuit of the high movement and pursuit of the high movement and pursuit of the high movement and pursuit of the high-moving and intensification of the high-moving and intensification of the high movement and pursuit of the high-moving and pursuit of the high-moving course of the American Dream.
Not surprisingly many HISPanic families turned to schools outside their public command of K-12 to find a more chance of bonds. Over the past 10 years, HISPanic families in North Carolina grow 40%, and in Nevada, at about 30%, compared to an 18% increase in the country. As a result, the request for school selection has passed through.
Polling shows the popularity of school choice among minority communities around the country. In Pennsylvania, new school polling shopping is an 80/20 issue for Hispanic (80%) and African-American) voters.
It all contributes to the case that the school’s choice is not only a educational reform; This is a strategy for building a better future. And the passage of SuperCharge school choice in each state is here, with the option of education for the ACT (ECCA) children. ECCA will ensure all 50 states have access to school selection.
By increasing graduation rates, which extends college attendance, which extends crime, and helps unknown quality of education, school choices reinforce foundations in a strong economy. As the intervals considered the ways of developing long term growth, the expansion of education in all states, to choose North Carolina in Nevada, our country can be a golden education in America.
Brian Jodice is National Press Secretary for American Federation for children. He lives in North Carolina.
Valeria Gurr is a senior with American Federation for children.
