Milton Friedman
Clint Bolick has written an exciting and fascinating account of his experience as a lawyer defending school choice. In the process, he provides a comprehensive history of the school choice movement from the 1990 enactment of the nation's first urban school program in Wisconsin to the 2002 Supreme Court decision that established the constitutionality of voucher programs including religious schools. Clint makes clear how high the stakes are for the youngsters in low-income families condemned to failing government schools and how much their parents are willing to sacrifice to rescue them. A true human interest tale.
William J. Bennett
Clint Bolick is the nation's leading attorney for parental choice and education reform. No one knows this legal battle better than Clint, and his successes are victories for both our education system and our children.
—Co-Director, Empower America;
Former Secretary of Education
John Gardner
Clint Bolick is the new Thurgood Marshall. Marshall litigated the end of legal apartheid; Bolick the demolition of educational townships.
—Milwaukee School Board
Nina Easton
Clint Bolick confounds his liberal critics because he is something that is not supposed to exist on the Right: an idealist.
—Author, Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Crusade
Library Journal
Attorney Bolick (Transformation: The Promise and Politics of Empowerment), who is affiliated with the Institute for Justice in Washington, DC, has argued numerous cases concerning educational vouchers and tax credits. Here he details his various court battles on school choice and attempts to answer the following questions: Should vouchers be for all schools, for all students, or just for financially and/or academically poor schools or students? How could a system of vouchers be achieved nationwide? Would all schools be held to certain standards in education? What needs to be done to include religious schools? Although these are hot topics, Bolick does little to advance the discussion and instead promotes his own personal agenda. His politics comes through loud and clear, as he indicates his obvious biases against liberals, the ACLU, the NEA, and People for the American Way. In the end, the reader is left to conclude that this book is as much about the author as it is about this important subject. A far better choice on the subject is R. Kenneth Godwin and Frank R. Kemerer's School Choice Tradeoffs: Liberty, Equity, and Diversity. An optional purchase for public libraries.-Terry Christner, Hutchinson P.L., IL Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
