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ERIC Number: ED638998
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Dec
Pages: 3
Abstractor: ERIC
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Promoting Microschool Partnerships. Sketching a New Conservative Education Agenda
Steven Thayn
American Enterprise Institute
As more states adopt universal education savings account (ESA) programs, analysts have declared that the "final frontier" of school choice has been reached. Another choice that parents might want to make and policymakers should support as an intermediate option between private school and homeschooling is partnering with their local schools to establish parent-run microschools. This paper proposes that states can foster these partnerships by incentivizing school districts to allow small groups of parents to teach students at home with public financial assistance but total curricular freedom. This proposal gives parents maximum power to choose the curriculum without severing ties with local schools. With microschooling, parents with the power to choose curricula can positively change public education's very nature, unlike with ESA or voucher proposals that require the student to leave the system.
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Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
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Audience: Policymakers
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
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