... have to fear for their safety, or fear that they will not learn anything in class because one person is disruptive. Choice-based reforms, such as vouchers and charter schools, depend on the idea that schools will have to satisfy parents to keep their customers. They provide parents with a portion of the public educational funding allotted for their child to attend school, and ... in this country who today support vouchers not because they are enamored with private schools but because they want a choice for their children." (Kerry) One benefit that is gained by implementing charter schoo...

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... every kid. You put a little bit of entrepreneurism back into schools." He points to changes in the Lansing public schools, such as all-day kindergarten, that came only after charter schools opened nearby. While Shields acknowledges public schools offer special education and other programs that many private schools don't provide, he thinks vouchers would encourage private schools to offer such programs, especially since vouchers for special education ... students may be higher. But Linda Bruin, legal counsel for the Michigan Association of School Boards, said vouchers wouldn't improve pu...

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