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Last holdout against educational freedom: every modern nation except the U.S. allows school choice. Here's how our allies make it work.(government funding for non-government schools)

The American Enterprise

| April 01, 2003 | Glenn, Charles; de Groof, Jan | COPYRIGHT 2003 The American Enterprise, a national magazine of politics, business and culture (TEAmag.com). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Over the last decade, we conducted a major study of how school systems operate in leading industrialized nations. We found that in every one of the two dozen countries we surveyed (which ranged from Canada, Britain, and Germany to Greece, Russia, and New Zealand), private citizens and religious organizations may operate non-governmental schools. Each country likewise permits parents to meet mandatory schooling requirements by sending their children to these private or religious schools.

The freedom to send one's children to non-government schools is well established in international law and educational practice, in the written constitutions of most free ...

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