Don’t regulate private schools — deregulate public schools.
The backlash to how traditional public schools handled Covid turned the first half of the 2020s into the half-decade of school choice, but now, the public education empire is striking back.
In this year’s midterm elections, in states including Arizona, Iowa, and my own Arkansas, school-choice opponents are arguing that to (indirectly, via parent choice) get taxpayer funds, “accountability” requires saddling private schools with public-school regulations. This may sound good at first blush, but it has it exactly backward: Instead of crushing private schools with more red tape, we should empower public schools with less.