Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.insight From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: CORRESPONDENCE Date: Mon, 26 Oct 92 11:27:05 EST Message-ID: \SE CORRESPONDENCE \HD Choice, Not Private Firms, Is the Key to School Reform The pseudoprivatization of nine public schools in Baltimore [Cover Story, Sept. 21] by a Minnesota company, Education Alternatives Inc., is not a free enterprise approach to the educational crisis, because EAI is accountable to politicians, not to parents. EAI's goal of rescuing children from the educational dregs is praiseworthy, but the bureaucrats who hired EAI - not the parents - still control the purse strings and decide who goes to which school. Fred Raab Novato, Calif. Write: Insight, Correspondence Editor, 3600 New York Ave. N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002. Fax: (202) 529-2484. Please include an address and a daytime phone number. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM