We've helped our readers see how many families are eligible
for school choice programs across the country and those who actually participate.
For more than a decade, empirical studies
on school choice programs have shown improvements in educational performance and results for both students and schools.
Thus, total expenditures on private
school choice programs as a share of total resources devoted to public education nationwide is 0.4 percent.
What's changed in recent years, however, is the number of formal
school choice programs designed to extend options to families with limited financial means.
A private
school choice program with a different design or that operated in a different context could well produce different results.
When studying voucher or
other school choice programs, for example, we have observed modest test score benefits for participants, but fairly large attainment benefits.
Nine out of the 10 studies that have been conducted report positive findings on the actual, real - world impact of
school choice programs when it comes to ethnic segregation.
The nation's
oldest school choice program designed exclusively for students with special needs began its first year with just two students enrolled.
The residual funding that remains in the public schools is the key to understanding
how school choice programs can actually benefit (rather than harm) public schools.
This is the first study that has measured the long - term education outcomes for students in a private
school choice program at the statewide level.
However, I found the design differences between various types of
school choice programs provide insight into how regulatory structures placed on private schools can vary.
My colleagues and I just released a meta - analysis of 19 «gold standard» experimental evaluations of the test - score effects of private
school choice programs around the world.
If you take those studies out of the sample, the findings for
true school choice programs are overwhelmingly positive for both short - and long - term outcomes.
Many public
school choice programs use centralized mechanisms to match students with schools in absence of market - clearing prices.
Since the creation of the first
modern school choice program in 1990, 30 empirical studies have examined the fiscal impact of school choice on taxpayers.
We can do this by creating or expanding
current school choice programs, including public charter schools, education scholarship accounts, tax credit scholarships, course choice, and public school open enrollment.
Throughout the world, private
school choice programs vary in the amount of funding that they provide to parents for schooling and in the extent to which they are available to all families.
Rather than simply providing an alternative to neighborhood public schools for a handful of students, the theory says,
school choice programs actually benefit students remaining in their neighborhood schools, too.
In fact, cities and states with
strong school choice programs have seen significant achievement gains in their public schools as increased student options encourages them to be more competitive.
One of the things
school choice programs need is certainty about market conditions, so that new schools can open with an expectation that there will be demand for their seats.
And voucher opponents have been creative in identifying a wide variety of constitutional provisions, having nothing to do with religion, under which to
challenge school choice programs.
As targeted
school choice programs continue to expand, so does the number of students who can signal dissatisfaction with outdated or ineffective teaching and learning strategies by choosing to attend a different school.
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