New Orleans has been portrayed as a school choice success story by many anti-public education voices, including some in Kansas. This piece from the New Orleans Tribune is informative. “This brings us to the bogus notion of school ‘choice’ that reformers have held up as a blessing for parents and students, when, in fact, the only entities that exercise any real choice in admissions have been the charter schools—not parents, not students. “Unelected boards not bound to parents or taxpayers determining school policies and deciding how money is spent. “Many parents even uncertain as to who they could or should … Continue reading New Orleans shows perils of school choice