That is, the evidence suggests that both students who exercise choice and students who remain in public schools benefit
from school choice programs.
But it at least suggests that we may have less to
fear from school choice than from the continual struggle to establish one educational «faith» through the vehicle of the common school.
A: As a teacher I benefit
from school choice by having the ability to work in a school environment where the achievement gap is most prominent.
Today, researchers
from the School Choice Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas and the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans at Tulane University will release findings from their study of the third year of results from the Louisiana Scholarship Program at the Urban Institute in Washington.
In this study we investigate whether district officials in a position to influence policy and practice have begun to respond to competitive
pressure from school choice in new ways.
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researchers from the School Choice Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas and the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans at Tulane University will release findings from their study of the third year of results from the Louisiana Scholarship Program at the Urban Institute in Washington.
As someone who has benefitted
from school choice thanks to my parents (and make no mistake, when you buy a home in a particular area in order to send children to a specific district, you are exercising school choice), I wanted quality options for my own daughters.
Finally, Koyzis refuses on principle to sketch the policy implications of Christian democracy (
aside from school choice).
But any comparison of the demographics of students in charter and traditional public schools provides at best an incomplete picture of segregation because segregation resulting
from school choice policies would occur primarily across schools, not within schools.
As reform ideas
expand from school choice to educational choice — not just where a child learns but how they learn — more research is needed on the accounts to determine how a menu of educational choices affects student achievement and parent satisfaction over a longer time horizon.
Two recent studies of LSP indicate initial negative student achievement results that do not align with the greater body of research showing positive or neutral
outcomes from school choice programs in other cities and states.
You don't really care about treatises on whether families are best being customers of schools, or ideological debates over the value of Common Core, or
pablum from school choice activists with jobs to protect about why state tests shouldn't be used to hold accountable private schools taking vouchers for serving kids, or if an Obama Administration plan to address suspensions is somehow a punishment to traditional district schools that have been failing kids for decade after decade.
Brandon was a recipient of a significant amount of campaign
money from the school choice movement during his 2012 run for office — 25 percent of his campaign contributions came from pro-voucher investors.
Data from school choice programs in Milwaukee, New Orleans, and Ohio show that a school choice plan does not always improve the quality of education for all students.
Rep. Marcus Brandon (D - Guilford), a key champion of the school voucher legislation, received campaign contributions totaling more than $ 10,000
from school choice proponents — approximately 25 % of all donations he received.
If you watched President Trump deliver his recent address to Congress, you saw him single out a student named Denisha Merriweather, an impressive Florida graduate student who attended private school with
help from a school choice program available for students from low - income families in the Sunshine State.
To some, it's an unverified claim that
emerged from school choice advocacy groups like Parents for Educational Freedom during recent legislative sessions.
McIntosh's charges come amid growing
claims from school choice critics that charters — publicly - funded schools with broad flexibility in their curriculum and staffing — may «cherrypick» or intentionally exclude some high - needs students, serving decidedly fewer low - income children and children with disabilities, populations that also tend to trail their peers academically.
One develops a theoretical hypothesis, such as «The achievement
effects from school choice evaluations reliably predict their attainment effects.»
ESAs represent a
move from school choice to educational choice because families can use ESA funds to pay for a lot more than just private school tuition.