Pro-choice means school choice.

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Gloria Romero knows what it's like to tackle the public education establishment. While representing East Los Angeles in the California Senate, she crafted the state's "parent trigger" law, allowing parents to force failing schools to convert to charter programs. Romero, now the California director of Democrats for Education Reform, suggested three arguments for school choice that appeal to people on the left.

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1 Education is the civil rights fight of our era. The minority base of the Democratic Party--Latinos and African Americans-has been disproportionately affected by ZIP code-based education and the proliferation of schools as dropout factories. Aren't we supposed to be the party that advocates for the poor?

2 Whatever happened to being pro-choice? As a Democratic woman, I support the right to choose. Mothers and...