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The Tax Credits Program for School Choice

Conclusion 

 Long experience has taught that the quality of goods and services is highest when consumers are free to choose and entrepreneurs are free to provide. American education, monopolized by government, has ignored this experience. Predictably, progress in education has been slow and uneven. If education is to prepare children for the 21st century, parents must be allowed to make the key educational decisions and entrepreneurs must be encouraged to offer educational products and services directly to parents and schools. The route to educational progress is via parental control of education spending. The tax credits for educational choice program would be a first, giant step.
About the Author Linda Morrison, a Senior Fellow of the National Center for Policy Analysis, is a public policy consultant based in Newtown, Pa., who was competitive contracting advisor to New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman and Director of Competitive Contracting for Mayor Ed Rendell of Philadelphia. Ms. Morrison was one of eight members of an expert panel on state and local privatization assembled by the General Accounting Office to assist that agency with a study it was conducting for the U.S. House Republican Panel on Privatization. She has advised other elected officials and candidates on a variety of issues involving the use of market forces to solve public policy problems and has written extensively on these subjects.

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