Parents, not bureaucrats, should ultimately determine where their children attend school.  In our education system, the wealthy are able to send their children to their private school of choice. Well-to-do members of the middle class buy homes in neighborhoods with better schools. The majority of working Americans and the nation’s poor are forced to send their children to mediocre and often under-performing schools. I believe in Universal School Choice, which allows all Americans, not just the wealthy and well connected, to send their children to excellent schools.

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