School Choices Roots in Segregation Battles
Few things sound as American as choice. And in the United States, the freedom to send one\u2019s child outside of the traditional public school system is a choice that has been promoted aggressively since the legal end to segregation in schools. Scholar Jon Hale traces how the notion of school choice was used to fight against school desegregation, by the likes of free market champion Milton Friedman and others. \nResources:\nJon Hale, The Choice We Face: How Segregation, Race, and Power Have Shaped America\u2019s Most Controversial Education Reform Movement Beacon, 2021\nPhoto credit: Eli Pousson\nThe post School Choice\u2019s Roots in Segregation Battles appeared first on KPFA.