A member of the House Education Appropriations Subcommittee provides tips for influencing Congress, such as visiting representatives in person, succinctly explaining education priorities, and keeping in touch. Emerging issues concern the federal budget, new educational technology, child care, and educational choice and school improvement efforts.…

Summarizes school-choice developments in several states and outlines various choice categories (intradistrict, interdistrict, and controlled). Discusses privatization efforts, the effects of choice, and the role of parental involvement, competition and productivity, regulations, bureaucracies, educational finance, unions, and implications for…