In Education, Greater Choice Doesn’t Always Mean Better Outcomes

Kevin Carey's piece in the New York Times about Betsy DeVos was quoted by the Washington Post:

As Kevin Carey, director of the education policy program at the New America Foundation noted after DeVos’ nomination, she has lobbied on all fronts in the school-choice movement, and she has been a particularly strong advocate for privatizing public education as much as possible.

In K-12, student choices are even more limited. As Carey noted in his analysis of the DeVos nomination, outside of urban areas, families have few, if any, options for charter or private schools. “A significant number of Trump’s most ardent supporters live in sparsely populated areas where school choice is logistically unlikely,” Carey wrote.