Does School Choice Need a Lemon Law?

When she moved her daughter into a reputable private school in Washington at the beginning of the pandemic, Ashley Jochim never imagined that she was preparing her daughter for failure. Jochim, a mother of four and an education researcher, thought her second-grader would do better in the smaller, more flexible environment the private school offered. At first, she did. Her daughter was buoyant, in part because the school’s emphasis on student-centered learning meant that her daughter had exciting experiences like creating a sculpture from garbage and building forts in the woods. “I only had good things to say about it,”... [Read more...]