Abstract
Educators and policymakers are currently engaged in a debate regarding the merits of school choice as a vehicle for improving education. Unfortunately, two distinctively different approaches to implementing this concept—choice within public education and choice between private and public education—frequently get confused. Often this failure to discriminate between the alternatives results in the blanket rejection of choice as a reform concept. The case study in this article demonstrates how one suburban elementary school district successfully increased public participation by adopting an in-district choice program. Factors that enabled and inhibited implementation of the choice program and parental and educator views about it are used to demonstrate effective approaches to engaging the community in public education.
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