and dollar rangeand up per year is just too much for some people to handle. This is where the idea of school choice comes into play. This particular term refers to The opportunity and power that parents are given to choose the school their childwill attend. This gives lower income families an advantage because now they do not haveto allow their child to attend their zone or district school if they do not want to.This system gives children better opportunities for success. Most school choice programsare done by full choice which is through the use of vouchers. The parents are provided with a portion of the public funds for their child and the child can use it to attend the school of his or her choice. It can be a parochial, public, charter or private school.The choice is totally up to them. I think this is a wonderful idea because more educationalopportunities have been created because of it. A child can now afford to attend a better institution than he or she would have otherwise been able to attend. Besides the full choice programs there are also private scholarship programs which award childrenwith scholarships to attend a particular school. Usually the children are high achievers and have excellent grade point averages. A person can easily state that school choice is the answer to most the problems withinthe system but there are some problems. The main issue is the subject of school funding.Depending on the cost of the school that the parent chooses, he or she is supposed to receive the cost of the school for their child. This poses a problem because some educators oppose this notion. The option of school choice actually imposes betterstandards on schools which is good news. The charter and private or parochial schoolsdo indeed have and maintain higher standards than those of the public school systems.There are two types of criteria that standards fall under and schools need to meet this criteria.The first one is content and...
