It's Thursday, May 4, 2023.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian worldview.

And, awful lot of what we are focusing on in the United States right now is how public

policy is made real in every dimension of life, and one of those dimensions, of course,

is education.

And a part of what we need to track even more closely is how government control of education

and government funded and influenced education has become such a central front in the culture

war.

But very interestingly, there's pushback coming from some rather unusual sources, and

there's some arguments coming to which Christians need to pay attention.

The main argument I want to consider today is one that appeared in an article by Amy

Laura Hall that appeared at Religion News Service.

Here's the headline, How School Choice Drives America's People of Faith Apart.

Now, the point in this RNS article is that the development of religious private schools

and in particular charter schools and other forms of school choice for parents, this is

actually, she argues, segregating Americans increasingly by faith.

And she makes the argument that this is one of the results of giving parents more choice,

parents tend to make choices that become more religiously specific.

And this is overgives the background of the fact that at least a large part of the project

of the public schools, and Amy Laura Hall doesn't go into this into detail, but a large part

of the background of the public school movement or the common school movement in the United

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