December 6, 2006 11:00AM 

# Do We All Support Market Education Now? 

By [Andrew J. Coulson](https://www.cato.org/people/andrew-coulson) 

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Alan Bonsteel, president of California Parents for Educational Choice, has [an interesting op-ed](http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/opinion/homepage/article_1374084.php) in the *OC Register* today arguing that the only folks still defending the government school monopoly are those who have a financial stake in its perpetuation.

I’m not quite convinced — I could name quite a few advocates of centrally controlled state schooling outside the government school employee unions — but he makes some thought provoking observations.

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