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Brookings scholar: Candidates should call for public school choice

By Jason Russell

Published October 5, 2015 8:28pm ET

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Brookings scholar: Candidates should call for public school choice — Students arrive for the first day of school at Stuyvesant High School, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015 in New York. New York CityÂ already lets parents choose a school within their district.Â (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) | Mark Lennihan

Presidential candidates should talk more about public school choice, according to Russ Whitehurst, a senior fellow at the centrist Brookings Institution.

“None of the candidates has to date mentioned, much less taken a position on, what is likely to be one of the most powerful levers of K-12 education reform: open enrollment in regular public schools tied to portable funding,” Whitehurst writes in a new Brookings paper.

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