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School Choice Is Winning

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4.5979 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2014

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The number of states with zero school choice options gets smaller every year. Bob Bowdon of Choice Media evaluates the state of educational freedom for children in the United States.

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0:00.0

This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, March 25th, 2014.

0:07.0

I'm Caleb Brown. The School Choice Movement is winning, says Choice Media is Bob Bowden.

0:12.0

He's produced a new short film entitled The Tick. winning says Choice Media is Bob Bowden.

0:12.7

He's produced a new short film entitled The Ticket,

0:15.3

Taking Stock of the State of Educational Freedom

0:18.0

in the United States.

0:19.4

We spoke last week about the film

0:21.1

in the state of school choice in America today.

0:26.0

You've sort of delved really deeply into school choice in the United States.

0:30.0

The cartel is your earlier film and this film tracks sort of the school choice movement in different areas, the United States.

0:40.0

What did you learn that was surprising in this process?

0:44.0

How the different movements of school choice that had previously been considered not only separate,

0:49.0

but sometimes even rivals, where the charter school people oftentimes were resentful of the voucher

0:54.6

supporters and then the homeschoolers were off somewhere else wanted nothing to do with the first

0:58.1

two and the and there was an online learning movement that sometimes touched those others

1:02.4

and other times didn't,

1:04.0

and as well as other things, like the parent trigger movement,

1:08.0

inter-district choice where kids cross from one city boundary

1:12.0

to another for a different district, that in fact these movements

1:16.3

are all converging under the umbrella of a single simple concept which is called

1:22.0

school choice. that umbrella term

1:24.4

defines all these things and all you have to to be for is the idea of

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