ABSTRACT
School choice is not new. Parents for years have selected schools for their children by choice of residence and by paying private school tuition. In the 1960s, freedom of choice was used in the South to maintain decades of prior racial segregation in public schools and then later through magnet schools to promote school integration. Th e development of thematic public schools in combination with intra-and interdistrict choice programs has given many parents a greater say in the education of their children.
