Center on Reinventing Public Education

In many American cities, school choice is no longer only for families who can exercise it by buying a house near a good public school or paying for private school. Many parents have options beyond their neighborhood school, including traditional public schools in other neighborhoods, charter schools, and even schools in nearby school districts. However it manifests in a particular city, school choice is increasingly the new normal in urban education and shows no sign of going away. The key question facing civic and education leaders, then, isn’t whether school choice will shape city school systems, but how.
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