The reforms to improve the quality of public education that have been

I need the e-GMAT 3-steps process to pre-think this assumption question.

The reforms to improve the quality of public education that have been initiated on the part of suppliers of public education have been insufficient. Therefore, reforms must be demanded by consumers. Parents should be given government vouchers with which to pay for their children’s education and should be allowed to choose the schools at which the vouchers will be spent. To attract students, academically underachieving schools will be forced to improve their academic offerings.

The argument assumes that

The argument type is Conclusion - Premise.

Conclusion is - The reforms to improve the quality of public education that have been initiated on the part of suppliers of public education have been insufficient. Therefore, reforms must be demanded by consumers..

The argument says that to improve the quality of education, parents should be in charge of the reform process

Now use the negation method.

If option A is negated, the conclusion does not hold.
Therefore A is the answer.

Try to negate other options and check whether conclusion holds or not.

The reforms to improve the quality of public education that have been initiated on the part of suppliers of public education have been insufficient. Therefore, reforms must be demanded by consumers. Parents should be given government vouchers with which to pay for their children’s education and should be allowed to choose the schools at which the vouchers will be spent. To attract students, academically underachieving schools will be forced to improve their academic offerings.

The argument assumes that

(A) in selecting schools parents would tend to prefer a reasonable level of academic quality to greater sports opportunities or more convenient location. - CORRECT. If not then there is problem. Academic offerings by academically underachieving schools would be captured by parents and holds the passage well.

(B) improvement in the academic offerings of schools will be enforced by the discipline of the job market in which graduating students compete. - WRONG. Irrelevant.

(C) there is a single best way to educate students. - WRONG. Extreme claim. 

(D) children are able to recognize which schools are better and would influence their parents’ decisions. - WRONG. Intriguing but children is not in the scope of the passage. They may influence but for that we need to assume further that children is part of the discussion which is not the case here. 

(E) schools would each improve all of their academic offerings and would not tend to specialize in one particular field to the exclusion of others.­ - WRONG.  Falters with the red text. Irrelevant second part. 

Answer A.