Last summer, John Hood, president of the John Locke Foundation, wrote eloquently about a conservative vision of public education, a vision in which parents of all income levels are given more choices about where and how to educate their children.

Those choices, he wrote, should be between competing educational enterprises — government-run schools, independently-run charter schools with government oversight, non-profit private schools and home schools. In each case, some kind of taxpayer support — whether vouchers, tax credits or other assistance — would back those choices.

He compared and contrasted that vision with a completely private or charitable system of public education and the current model where state-run K-12 schools dominate the education landscape.

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