With a 54 percent increase in charter school enrollment over the last three years, competition from charters and school choice were two topics of discussion at last weekend’s board retreat for members of the Wake County School Board.
So what do school board members think of school choice? Can parents expect more options in the future. Listen to comments from board member Christine Kushner
If we have a school SYSTEM (Kushener’s emphasis) different choices of schools and that we intentionally enroll them in ways that we control for our priorities, I think that is how we do allow choice, which is what parents are demanding but also the 70 percent of folks who do not have school age children need to have a sound system of schools to improve our economy and our community.
So Board of Education members will offer more school choice if they have different types of schools within the same system, if the board can control enrollment (“intentionally enroll them” and if the schools make sure it’s only what WCPSS officials want (“control for our priorities”). That’s how WCPSS will “allow choice”
Sounds like no choice.
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