The 74 «It Gave Us a Choice When We Didn't Have One»:
Private School Choice Participants Flood Capitol to Tell Their Stories
Not exact matches
For
private school choice programs that aren't targeted towards students with disabilities, students of color are the majority of
participants
What have we learned about the students and
schools who choose to participate in statewide
private -
school choice programs and the academic results for
participants?
Patrick Wolf explained that «
private -
school -
choice programs disproportionately attract students from disadvantaged backgrounds,» noting that the
choice participants are «considerably more likely to be low - income, lower - achieving, and African American, and much less likely to be white, as compared to the average public -
school student in their area.»
Florida and Milwaukee compared
private choice participants with similar students in public
schools, but the possibility remains that unmeasured differences could affect results.
Research on
private school choice is much better equipped to measure the effects on
participants» outcomes than to offer guidance on policy design.
As state and federal policy makers consider
private -
school choice programs, they should heed research on both
participant and competitive effects.
Moreover, 12 percent of the 446,000
participants in
private -
school -
choice programs in 2016 — 17 were in initiatives limited to students with disabilities, which is slightly higher than the 11 percent average rate of student disability in public
schools nationally.
The effects of
private -
school -
choice programs on the achievement of student
participants have been extensively studied using a variety of research designs.
«What you see in terms of initial
participants in
private school -
choice programs are parents who are desperate to get their kid out of an educational situation.»
We will be joined by
participants and
schools in Louisiana's
private school choice programs to celebrate
school choice options.