The Education Exchange: Philanthropist of the Year Bill Oberndorf Explains State-Based Strategy for Expanding School Choice

Gains among frustrated minority parents: “choice allows them to take their kids where they want them to be.”  

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Investor and Chairman of the Board for the American Federation for Children, Bill Oberndorf, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how progress in the school choice movement has been made in the states, with private school choice programs in 32 states, and charter programs in 48.

Oberndorf was recently awarded the 2021 Simon-DeVos Prize for Philanthropic Leadership by Philanthropy Roundtable.

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November 1, 2021

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