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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 ...