Colorado’s Amendment 80 wants to make school choice ‘a right’ when it already is – an expert in educational policy explains the disconnect
- Written by Christopher Lubienski, Professor of Education Policy, Indiana University
In November, Colorado voters will decide whether the state’s constitution should be amended to specify a right to school choice.
But school choice is already guaranteed by state statute and federal courts. So why is this initiative being posed at all?
Even the initiative’s backers acknowledge that Colorado already has “one of the...