Book Profiles System of School Choice In New Zealand
Charter schools in this country are still too new to allow any firm conclusions about their potential, says a new book that looks abroad for answers and suggests that inequities across schools could increase under such a system unless adequate safeguards are put in place.
When Schools Compete: A Cautionary Tale examines the history of school reform in New Zealand, an island nation with 3.6 million people, roughly the same as South Carolina.
In 1989, the New Zealand government abolished the national department of education and turned control of the country's nearly 2,700 primary and secondary schools over to locally elected boards of trustees, controlled by parents. Then, in 1991, a newly elected government abolished neighborhood enrollment zones and allowed parents to choose among schools, forcing schools to compete...
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