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economists, Milton Friedman, has written, the “centralization and bureaucratization of public schooling are the fundamental reasons for their deterioration. As the financing of public schools has moved further away from local control, the educational bureaucracy has tended to replace parents in deciding what and how our children should learn. The most expedient, and perhaps the only, way to return control to parents is an arrangement whereby parents can choose the schools their children attend, and if you are not satisfied, can move their children from one school to another”, in other words, a “free market” approach to education.

Tools such as credits and vouchers simply endow parents, rich or poor, with the economic means to choose the best school for their child. If that school, be it public or private, fails, then the parent has the economic ability to

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