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There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.

I want my kids to be in an environment where they can talk about values in a way that you can't always do in a public school setting.

Good home-school educational plans have the kids in groups with other children often and consistently. Because common sense dictates that isolating people is never good and home-schooled children really benefit from being in those type of programs.

I would like my kids to go to college and be exposed to the real world and to make their own decisions and find their own path instead of sending them somewhere where they would be creatively conditioned for one life path or another.

The public education landscape is enriched by having many options - neighborhood public schools, magnet schools, community schools, schools that focus on career and technical education, and even charter schools.

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.

We need to encourage innovative ideas that give parents better alternatives to prepare children for higher education and for the jobs of the future.