Jay P. Greene is a senior research fellow in the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. At Heritage, Greene conducts and disseminates research on the key issues facing education today, including the cultural, civic, and economic implications of how education systems are designed and implemented. He is one of the country’s leading experts on education policy, with highly influential research on a broad range of topics.
Greene joins Conduit once again to discuss his most recent article highlighting school choice legislation in Texas. Greene says, “In that piece where it says ‘Texas,’ you can cross it out and write Arkansas and it pretty much holds true.”
Greene says the the obstacle to passing school choice in many red states like Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, is that the rural superintendents have had the ear of their legislators. However, Greene says the grip of rural school-district superintendents on their state representatives is loosening and the door to empowering parents is opening.
Read the entire article from Greene on The Heritage Foundation website: click here.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Texas policy-makers have repeatedly tried and failed to expand school choice within their state, but this upcoming legislative session will be different.
- Parents are increasingly noticing the disconnect between the values they wish to teach their children and what is being promoted in their schools.
- The grip of rural school-district superintendents on their state representatives is loosening and the door to empowering parents is opening.
