By The Gazette Editorial Board | SOURCE: THE GAZETTE
The only downside to school choice in our state? There isn’t enough of it.
It’s the right prescription for what ails Colorado’s public schools — an inoculation against the plague of malaise and abysmal performance at too many schools in too many communities.
It’s why we salute the 14th annual National School Choice Week, which kicked off Sunday and runs through Saturday in Colorado and across the rest of the country. It’s a week in which school choice’s diverse advocates and supporters not only raise the movement’s profile for state policymakers but also reach out to parents to help them take advantage of the education options available to them.
The observance, organized by the National School Choice Awareness Foundation, will feature over 460 fairs and other events scheduled around Colorado, out of some 27,000 such engagements planned nationwide. Parents will be able to drop by for an overview of offerings and plug into the programs they feel are right for their children.