School Choice, Not Test Scores, Produces Real Accountability

School Choice, Not Test Scores, Produces Real Accountability

It’s easy to see why school choice is popular with parents: It enables them to make the educational arrangements that best convey the values, knowledge, and skills they wish their children to acquire. And if they’re dissatisfied, they can move their children elsewhere. They don’t have to settle for their “assigned” school. But what happens when we don’t trust parents to do that? Even some who are sympathetic to school choice worry that accountab…