School Choice and the Law

ACSC attempts to make the American public freshly aware that there is no necessary bar in our legal systems to creating and implementing wiser educational policies that enable all parents to choose the school that will best help them to fulfill their responsibility toward their children. There are many avenues within our constitutional systems by which choice can be provided.

When forming educational policy and debating the laws that regulate it, a thoughtful public will see the family not as the happenstance situation in which the child happens to be located, nor as a private consumer of publicly provided goods, but rather as an irreplaceable public resource, one that warrants support in law.

ACSC affirms that the dignity of choosing their child’s educator is already fully legal and is wisely built into the educational policies of our fifty states -- for parents of means. These families rightly prize their authority to select the educator, public or private; they recognize the enrichment of family life and the benefits to the common good that flow from parental responsibility for this fateful human decision.