Equal Education?

Yesterday in class Johnson asked us to focus on how education can become equal. I really enjoyed Brittany's comment on how we should be concentrating on making an equal education by offering the same quality of education throughout the united states. As Ed mentioned, richer towns have better school districts because more tax dollars go into them. So the solution to this problem is to have the the tax dollars divided state-wide instead of town-wise. Yet, that would take a long time for the government to make that change.
There are options that are available now that we have not yet talked about in class yet. One of those is school choice. George W. Bush aproved The No child left behind act in 2001. It aims to, "Close the achievement gap with accountability, flexability, and choice so that no child is left behind." This act, although picked on by many people allows parents to choose where their child gets their education regardless of where they live.
If a parent feels that their child is not getting an education that they deserve in their current district, they can choose another so long as that school is not at capacity. The only catch is that the parent has to provide their child's transpertaion to and from the school.
Question: Does school choice make education more fair/equal?