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This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, December 10th, 2020.

I'm Caleb Brown.

There are broadly two camps of educational freedom advocates, according to Cato adjunct

scholar Jason Bedrick, the libertarians who generally

believe in a freewheeling educational marketplace, and those who are somewhat more concerned

with equality of access, which leads to old manner of

interventions. Bedrick is co-author of the new book Religious Liberty and

education. We spoke last month. Yeah I mean there's no there's no school choice system where anybody can do whatever they want.

Every system has some level of regulation.

Even states that don't have school choice programs there are regulations on on

private schools but among supporters of educational choice I'd say they're

really there are two camps broadly speaking.

So one camp is the Libertarian camp which I'm sure listeners to the Cato

Podcast are quite familiar with that support the maximum amount of freedom possible when it comes to educational choice.

But there is another camp of supporters of educational choice that we call in this book chapter

a qualitarians and essentially what the equolitarians believe is that

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