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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaell0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points In theirenthusiasrn for universal vouchers and education savings accounts, conservatives have largely ceded charter school policy to progressives. SThe progressive aproach to charter school autrorization rails to achieve its stated coals and arbitrarily lirnits the promise of charter schooling. SC.onservatives should reengage on charter school policy, fighting againstdefauit closure and charter caps and for mnore diverse charter authorizers. Due to the recent wave of momentum behind uni- versal vouchers and education savings accotnts, charter schools have become an afterthought for some conservative school choice advocates. For tens of millions of families, however, expansive educational freedom remains unobtainable in the foreseeable future. Less than alf of states find a private school choice program, and most programs are limited to a specific population (e.g., low-income students or speciAl-needs students). Only so states currently operate education savings accounts, and only Ari- zona provides universal access. in other words, for most American children, charter schools-which operate in 45 states----may long remain the only publicly funded recourse to traditional public schools. To that end, it would be a mistake to dis- engage from charter debates. There is a progressive and a conservative vision for charter schooling For progressives, charters are a tool to promote equity, a social goal that requires central planning so that high- quality options are available to traditionally underserved student populations. As jason 7wara, the director of strategic partnerships at the National Associa- tion of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA)-an influential organization that, in my view, ascribes to the progressve orientation toward charters- succinctly quipped in an April 2022 Twitter post, School Thoice for school choice's sake' is com- pletely misguided . . . social justice and equity are the GOAL nor some political tactic.I For conservatives, educational freedom is intrinsi- cally good, so policy should seek to make charters accessible to all families that seek an alternative to their traditional p blic school. Bureaucrats should take a back seat to parents in determining where and when new charters are established and when, if necessary, they should close. The two views of charter schools are morally and politically defensible, and indeed their differ- ences are ones over which reasonable people can disagree. Unfortunately, when it comes to char-- ter policy, conservatives have largely ceded the field to pr gressives. This report aims to critique the assumptions and outcones of the progressive

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