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Friday Freakout: What is Wrong with School Vouchers?

…against school choice programs for children. “The second thing that the writer should know is that our public tax money should not be going to private schools, especially not those…

Slate “Creates” New Issue with School Choice

…and tax-credit scholarships fund students, not schools, and their parents do the choosing. Indeed, adding context to Slate’s numbers of creationism-teaching private schools, parents actually have far more options to…

Top-Down Reform vs. Market Reform of K–12 Education

…but then—in a blast back to the distant past—small schools and schools within schools became all the rage. That is not to suggest one is wrong and the other right….

Understanding the New IES Report on the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program

…year, fewer than 14,000 D.C. students attended charter schools while more than 61,500 attended district schools. In 2015–16, nearly 39,000 D.C. students attended charter schools and 1,301 received OSP scholarships…

The Next Accountability Part 2: Where We Get What We Want

…above account is correct, what does it suggest about good schools? What kinds of schools should principals try to maintain and educational entrepreneurs try to create? To provide an environment…

Public Schools Should Rise Above [Which] Mark?

…most effectively applied. Under a system of broad-based school choice, funding for schools (both public and private) will be determined more by the performance and true needs of schools than…

New Study Shows Positive Family Outcomes for Private School Students

…of marriage. The researchers compared students who attended public schools, Catholic schools, Protestant schools, and secular private schools. They also compared student reports of their peer environment, looking at rates…

Challenging Suburban School Choice in Douglas County, Colorado

…suburbs’ Douglas County School District were given the opportunity to use suburban school choice to choose private schools using their children’s public funds, courtesy of a district-wide voucher program. Opponents…

BRIEF: School Choice in the States May 2014

…schools, charter schools, online programs, or homeschooling. Charter schools were favored by 64 percent; vouchers, by 62 percent; tax-credit scholarships by 68 percent; and education savings accounts by 58 percent….

Research Finds Higher Private School Share Directly Linked to Higher Test Scores, Stronger Human Rights Internationally

…Impacts of Private Schooling Most studies examining effects of private schooling suffer from failing to establish whether private schooling actually causes the outcomes. After all, families choose to send their…