It's more appropriate to put spending on school choice with resources devoted to public education in states that have private
school choice policies in place.
Researchers and policymakers should take them into account when considering what sort of regulatory environment to construct
for school choice policies.
Finally, charters and other
public school choice policies — strengthened in 35 states — continue to empower parents to seek out the best educational opportunities for their children.
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with school choice policy in your state, as well as learn about organizations and resources you can use to make a change.
Unfortunately, that quickly went sour when teachers started whining
about school choice policies rather than real issues with teaching challenges and issues in education.
Read on to learn why those leveling the arguments against tax - credit scholarship programs are misguided in their interpretations of this
particular school choice policy.
In reality, there have been 13 randomized controlled gold standard studies of the effect
of school choice policies, all but one of which found a statistically significant positive impact.
While many public school choice options can be considered by states — including open enrollment policies and magnet schools — the most prominent
public school choice policy is charter schools.
Taken as a whole, information about local school rankings has a less substantial impact on public thinking about teacher policy than it has on thinking
about school choice policies.
Third, many control group children may already have been attending a school other than one in their neighborhood as a result of
expanded school choice policies, which also meant that children in the experimental group could stay in their original schools after their families moved.
The debate over
national school choice policy was on display in Indianapolis Monday as US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos came to the capital city...
Despite the growing diversity of the nation's school - aged population, the embrace of
school choice policy across the country has coincided with an increase in segregation across race, socioeconomic status, and student ability.
Urban education systems around the country have implemented
school choice policies aimed at expanding low - income students» access to high - quality schools.
Proponents of market - based education reform often argue that introducing charter schools and
other school choice policies creates a competitive dynamic that will prompt low - performing districts to improve their practice.
After reviewing those international programs» effects on segregation in schools, I was able to suggest specific «Do's and Don'ts» with respect to
school choice policy design in The Integration Anomaly.
According to Erica Frankenberg, associate professor of education and demography and co-director of the Center for Education and Civil Rights at Penn State, the new generation of
school choice policies adopted in response to legal decisions may actually be increasing school inequalities, despite their goals of maintaining integrated schools.
Majorities within both groups support
school choice policies such as school vouchers (66 percent and 63 percent, respectively), charter schools (64 percent and 67 percent), ESAs (60 percent and 53 percent), and tax - credit scholarships (72 percent and 57 percent).
What we should be able to agree about is that the positive track record of state - level
school choice policies does not imply that Congress should enact a federal voucher program.
He noted that
school choice policies like charters and vouchers are siphoning resources away from public schools and making it more difficult for them to adequately serve their students.
But the results of this investigation nonetheless advance our understanding of the effects of
school choice policies by providing the first experimentally generated information on the long - term impact of a voucher intervention.
State - level differences included the strength of charter laws, statewide demographics,
existing school choice policies, number of school districts, and the presence of charter support or opposition groups that operate throughout the state.
But critics of
school choice policies argue that these reforms will lead to increased segregation by race and class as more motivated families move to better schools, leaving the most disadvantaged students behind in the worst public schools.
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.
We also set aside important issues of school capacity and potential responses to a
new school choice policy (such as the opening of new schools or closing of existing ones).
The state of Michigan today constitutes a lively laboratory for study of the most prominent public
school choice policies under way across the country.
In Indiana, where Trump's running mate, Mike Pence, championed
numerous school choice policies, the 2016 - 2017 income limit for a family of four to receive the largest voucher amount was $ 44,955.
If school choice policies are shaped differently and coupled with strong civil rights policies, it «could give D.C. families a choice that has never been present in most of the city — strong schools, well - integrated by race and income, where students... learn skills essential to living and working... [in a] multiracial city,» the Civil Rights Project notes.
In fact, though, the systemic effects of
school choice policies depend first on the local context in which the policies are implemented and second on the rules that govern the choices of parents and schools.