“Join us for a FRANK Talk about school choice.
Arizona is one of the nation’s most “choice friendly” states regarding educational opportunities at the K-12 level.School choice is a term for K–12 public education options in the U.S. describing a wide array of programs offering students and their families alternatives to public schools, that students are usually assigned to based on where their family lives.
The legislature approved Arizona’s charter school law in 1994 and currently Arizona has over 540 charter schools with more than 180,000 students. Since then the expansion of charter schools and vouchers (often called educational savings accounts) is not without controversy. Does school choice improve school quality? Does school choice increase educational opportunity for all students? Has school choice fostered the privatization of education in the U.S.? Join us for a FRANK talk about the policy and practical implications of school choice.
This community conversation is facilitated by Dr. Angelina Castagno, Northern Arizona University, Educational Foundations.
Additional reading:
- Rethinking School Choice: Educational Options, Control, and Sovereignty in Indian Country (PDF)
- Self-determination through self-education: culturally responsive schooling for Indigenous students in the USA (PDF)
- Culturally Responsive Schooling for Indigenous Youth: A Review of the Literature (PDF)
- “I Don’t Want to Hear That!”: Legitimating Whiteness through Silence in Schools (PDF)”
FRANK Talks are sponsored by Arizona Humanities.
