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What Exactly Is 'School Choice' and Why Should Parents Know About It?

2023/2/25
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We're Momming Today! w/Lauren Simonetti

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We're Momming Today with Corey DeAngelis, Senior Fellow at the American Federation for Children, about the new hot button issue: school choice. A lot of parents out there find themselves saying 'What school choice?' We spend about $16,000 per student per year in the government-run school system, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2020 data. And it's probably a lot higher now in 2023... Corey shares with us why we're seeing school choice policies, which allow that same money to follow the child to the education provider of their choosing, move through state legislatures this year in particular.

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