How can parents identify what's best for their student? Do they need to take the child with them or can they make the decision on their own?

So both can be good approaches.

It depends on your kid and especially on their age.

One of the things that I advise parents to do is before you start looking at the options, getting very clear the family on the goals.

It sounds simple, but it's actually a step that people sometimes skip and realize later they could have spent more time on.

Writing down what you're actually looking for so that you have this North Star to come back to when you start looking at different options can be really clarifying because there's lots of great schools out there.

And there's also schools that our friends, our family, other people in our lives highly recommend, have had great experiences at.

To what degree does the school choice or ed choice program cover the cost of tuition for these expensive private schools?