Jon Huntsman on Education Republican UT Governor

School choice & competition is healthy for public schools

We must be mindful that 97% of Utah’s students are enrolled in public schools. It’s imperative that we keep them strong. Competition is healthy and certainly does not exclude mutually beneficial dialogue that shares ideas, techniques % problem solving tools to improve our children’s education. Failure to attempt improvement in education through market forces means that we are not striving to improve our children’s opportunities for learning.

Partnerships between public education and the business community are beneficial and should be strengthened as a potential source of revenue. The private sector has developed and continues to develop practices and methods applicable to education, which can be shared with educators and parents.