{"id":6487,"date":"2023-11-29T20:00:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T20:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/?p=6487"},"modified":"2024-10-15T22:01:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T22:01:07","slug":"our-unique-approach-gains-national-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/2023\/11\/29\/our-unique-approach-gains-national-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Unique Approach Gains National Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Discovery Institute\u2019s American Center for Transforming Education has gained increasing national attention with our unique two-prong approach. We work to transform public education while also empowering parents with the freedom to select the K-12 educational avenue for their children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prolonged COVID public school shutdowns exposed parents to the misplaced priorities of the teachers unions and also gave parents, through online remote learning sessions, a first-hand view of the dearth of high-quality academic learning provided by those schools. Their heightened concerns increased their engagement in the system and led to a surge in support of school choice among the general public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Advancing universal school choice in states will reduce teachers unions\u2019 power and lay the groundwork for public education system-level transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two years ago, the hope of providing all families within a state with funding to select the education avenues that would best serve their children was considered nearly unimaginable. Yet today, ten states have signed universal or near-universal school choice into law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A contribution of any amount to the American Center for Transforming Education will allow us to increase our work on behalf of children, families, communities, and ultimately our country at a time when more and more Americans are yearning for educational freedom and an overhaul of public education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/donate\/\" class=\"ek-link\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" class=\"ek-underline\">DONATE TODAY<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Advancing universal school choice in states will reduce teachers unions\u2019 power and lay the groundwork for public education system-level transformation.<\/p><cite>Keri D. 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