OCPA and the Oklahoma School Choice Coalition to Honor Milton Friedman with Lunch in OKC, Dinner in Tulsa
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
July 23, 2010
Contact: Jason Sutton
(405) 248-8960
jason@ocpathink.org
Renowned late economist long fought
for educational choice for students, parents
While Friedman is renowned as
one of the great economists of our time, he spent the last decade of his life
fighting to bring educational freedom to all American students. In 1996, he and
his wife, Rose, founded the Foundation for Educational Choice to promote his
vision for universal school choice — an idea he first proposed in
1955.
To honor Friedman, OCPA and the
School Choice Coalition will host meetings in Oklahoma City and Tulsa featuring
an update from key legislators and information about the current and future
school-choice landscape in Oklahoma.
Friedman, who passed away in
November 2006, is regarded as one of the world’s most influential promoters of
economic freedom. He argued that the voluntary choices of individuals, not the
dictates of government, should be the default mode of human life. His
revolutionary work in economic theory earned him the Nobel Prize in
1976.
“In an era of bailouts and
greater government economic intervention, citizens should remember Dr.
Friedman’s work for its emphasis on individual freedom,” said Robert Enlow,
president and CEO of the Foundation for Educational Choice. “Our country is at a
crossroads today. Do we go down the path of individual control, or do we adhere
to the free-market principles, like those espoused by Dr. Friedman, that made
our country what it is today: Great.”
OCPA is a nonprofit,
nonpartisan think tank which formulates public policy research and analysis
consistent with the principles of free enterprise, limited government, and
individual initiative.
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