To truly understand the differences in long - term effects across these three programs and to ultimately answer the question of when and how
private school choice works, we need to examine more programs and variation in outcomes across different private schools within each program to learn more about program design.
Not exact matches
Private -
school -
choice supporters (among the bedrock of the reform universe writ large, as their advocacy typically crosses sectors and supports the
work of those reforming
school districts as well — support that is, incidentally, infrequently returned) have two general overriding philosophies.
In
private schools, math or science majors earn 14 percent more if they
work in an area with a high degree of
private -
school choice.
In addition to rescinding regulations on K - 12
school accountability and teacher preparation programs, as well as guidance that jeopardized due process for alleged sexual assault perpetrators, Trump
worked with Congress to advance
school choice in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which made
private -
school tuition eligible for 529 savings plans.
I found that teachers who
work in areas with higher Tiebout and
private school choice attended more selective colleges.
To voucher proponents, that student performance at
private schools is ultimately on par with that at public
schools shows vouchers are
working as intended, giving families an equal but different
choice.
But we believe in
private school choice, too — indeed, we believe in every kind of
school choice that
works for kids — and have previously mapped the touchy territory of accountability for «voucher
schools» and advised policy makers on how to deal with these challenging trade - offs and balancing acts.
Last week, several news outlets circulated a report by the U.S. Department of Education's research division that found negative results for students who participated in the District of Columbia's Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), the only
private school choice program for low - income children in Washington, D.C. Predictably, opponents of
school choice descended on the report to tout it as evidence that
school choice does not
work.
This week, we at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute released a «toolkit» for policymakers
working to create or expand
private -
school -
choice programs.
We
work with leaders at all types of
schools in every sector — MPS, independent charter, and
private Choice — at every point along the path to high - quality.
The reasons for this are many: more right - to -
work states, a population shift to right - to -
work states, an increase in mostly non-unionized charter
schools and an uptick in the number of families availing themselves of
school choice opportunities and sending their kids to
private schools.
Leaving aside the obvious fact that parents themselves have chosen to participate in
private school choice programs, the body of research on these programs proves they
work for children fortunate enough to participate.
LFC supports a wide range of educational
choice initiatives, so that high quality public, charter and
private schools flourish and parents will have the opportunity to select the quality
school that
works best for their children, and so that teachers will have the flexibility to select the
school that best utilizes their strengths and interests.
Recent columns in the news media, including ones in The New York Times and Los Angeles Times, are using self - selected data points to suggest that
private school choice programs do not
work for children.
Rather, it squares with previous research exploring the relationship between
choice schools and civic values, including
work spearheaded by Dr. Greene, which found that
private school attendance was associated with increased tolerance among public
school adults and our colleague Patrick Wolf, who observed the same relationship in New York City.
... it is nice to see GothamSchools» Geoff Decker do stellar
work in breaking news yesterday on this contradiction between Haimson's public criticism of expanding
school choice and her very
private decision to embrace it.
IASBO recommends that there be a thorough study of the
Choice Scholarship program to determine if it is
working and to determine if students are staying in
private schools or returning to the public
schools.
In The Tax - Credit Scholarship Audit, EdChoice Director of Fiscal Policy and Analysis Dr. Martin Lueken follows up on previous
work examining the fiscal effects of
private school choice programs on state governments, state and local taxpayers and
school districts.
Voinovich, former Cleveland mayor, Governor of Ohio and U.S. Senator, was a longtime champion of
private school choice and
worked tirelessly throughout his career to ensure the most disadvantaged students had access to a quality education through
private school choice.
The Trump administration's budget proposal this year asked for $ 250 million to «replicate successful
private school choice programs and build evidence around what
works.»
For
school choice to
work, Butcher said, policymakers should give families vouchers to attend
private schools, and allow more charter
schools to open.
Robinson is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he
works on education policy issues including
choice in public and
private schools, regulatory development and implementation of K - 12 laws, the role of for - profit institutions in education, prison education and reentry, rural education, and the role of community colleges and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in adult advancement.
Opponents of
school choice make wild and unsubstantiated claims that
private choice doesn't
work.
In The Tax - Credit Scholarship Audit, EdChoice Director of Fiscal Policy and Analysis Dr. Martin Lueken updates previous
work examining the fiscal effects of
private school choice programs.
Full disclosure: I
work for Step Up For Students, which hosts this blog and helps administer Florida's tax credit scholarship program, the largest
private school choice program in the nation, and the state's Personal Learning Scholarship Accounts program, its education savings accounts for students with special needs.
The American Federation for Children and state affiliate, Arizona Federation for Children, will continue our
work locally to fight for the rights of the 67,000 children currently using
private school choice programs and the over 170,000 children attending charter
schools, as well as
work to ensure that one day all Arizona families are empowered to choose the best
school for their children.
And, it proposes a new $ 250 million
private school choice program, which would likely allow
working class families to use public funds to help pay tuition for
private schools.
Even when they do live in urban districts, many of them either use
school choice clauses in collective bargaining agreements to get first dibs on
schools that don't have Black or Latino children in them, or just send their kids to
private schools to avoid the failure mills they themselves
work in.
Today, the primary beneficiaries of the nation's
private school choice programs are low - income,
working - class, and minority families.
Our survey last year found 59 percent of Americans supportive of charter
schools; 56 percent in favor of
school vouchers; and 49 percent backing education savings accounts or ESAs, a relatively new form of educational
choice that allows families to go beyond
private school tuition to customize a learning plan that
works for each individual student.
Forster has conducted empirical studies on the impact of
school choice programs in Milwaukee, Ohio, Florida and Texas, as well as national empirical studies comparing public and
private schools in terms of
working conditions for teachers, ethnic segregation and teacher and staff misconduct.
Vote Lowell Holtz, a man who values local control,
school choice,
private and home -
schooled education as he
works tirelessly to improve public education for all of Wisconsin's children.