Abstract
This chapter focuses on the philosophical questions and tensions involved in the phenomenon of charter schools (United States), free schools (United Kingdom), and similar schools that give students and parents greater choice within public school systems. After a brief review of these reforms and their shared rationales, I focus on the philosophical questions about the purposes, aims, and values raised by autonomous schools of choice. This chapter reviews these philosophical questions along two broad dimensions: (1) rights, pluralism, and autonomy and (2) democracy, justice, and equity. I conclude by sketching out implications of these philosophical questions for choice policy and practice and some recommendations for employing philosophical frameworks in the analysis of these policies.
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