Brookings scholar: Candidates should call for public school choice

Published October 5, 2015 8:28pm ET



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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