The forum was organized to coincide with School Choice Month and occur just before School Choice Week, which is Jan. 23 to 29.
Reed, who serves on the foundation’s staff as the state program and government relations director, helps to coordinate the foundation’s efforts to prepare target states for the introduction of school choice. He said his message is simple: people deserve the right to have an option. Ohio has multiple school choice programs, including the Autism Scholarship Program (about 1,300 participants), the Cleveland Scholarship Program (6,000 participants) and a program that helps students who lives in district’s where public schools are failing (14,000 participants). All school choice programs currently in place are either revenue neutral or provide fiscal savings to states, he said.
Former Mason school board member Jennifer Miller, the forum’s organizer, said, “I think it creates competition and when you create competition, you’re going to create better schools.”
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