'School choice' is great, as long as we don't forget the value of a great neighborhood school

Someone asked me recently: “Don’t you agree that inner-city parents of color should have the same opportunities for choice as wealthy suburban parents?”

Yes, yes I do.

But I think what I have in mind is not necessarily what my questioner had in mind. My questioner, like many choice proponents, tends to think first about creating new options, like innovative charter schools. And that’s fine...