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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.

A study I recently co-authored at the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty explores school choice programs in the Netherlands, Sweden and Chile.

Every study ever conducted on school choice programs in America has found they improve integration by allowing children to move from more segregated schools to more integrated schools.

I will be sharing in this space AFC Blog stories celebrating the 50 school choice programs in 25 states plus the District of Columbia, as well as the millions of children enrolled in charter schools across the country.

Chile has had one of the most robust school choice programs in the world for the past few decades, and public school enrollment is currently only about 52 percent.

In school choice, Bert was IJ's lead counsel in its successful legal defense of school choice programs in both Indiana and Alabama.

WILL's latest policy brief explores the school choice programs in the Netherlands, Sweden, and Chile.

Scores of Democratic state legislators have sponsored, cosponsored, and voted for the 48 private school choice programs in 23 states and D.C..

These unusual events and policies included the great recession, expanded public school choice programs in the Hartford region, and assorted neoliberal education reforms.

Research released today by the Urban Institute shows further favorable long - term outcomes for students who enroll in private school choice programs in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Washington, D.C. Previous research showed even more positive outcomes in Florida's largest private school choice program.

I've written about this at greater length elsewhere (see here and here), but we have eight rigorous studies of school choice programs in which the -LSB-...]

If the Education Savings Account (ESA) program proposed in Senate Bill 193 becomes law, school district operating budgets can be expected to decline on average by a mere 0.14 percent in the program's first year, leaving districts with 99.86 percent of their operating budgets intact, based on the performance of school choice programs in other states.

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.

The Institute for Justice currently represents intervening parents in Douglas County, Colo., and in Indiana defending recently passed school choice programs in those jurisdictions.

Blaine amendments remain in force in 37 states, and they are being cited in lawsuits against school choice programs in Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma and Nevada.

Proponents of parental school choice programs in the state will mark 25 years of school choice this evening.

The amount of money parents receive through Alabama's credit is less than the average funding parents receive through private school choice programs in other states.

Minnesota has one of the oldest school choice programs in the country, but unfortunately it has not grown sufficiently.

The «study,» as reported by WRTV in Indianapolis, included Indiana's program with three long - running and popular school choice programs in Milwaukee, Cleveland and Washington, D.C.

Pro-voucher groups aren't trying to fight accountability, but are working to make sure that an equitable process is developed to measure the success of school choice programs in improving academic achievement, says Jim Bender, executive director of School Choice Wisconsin.

School choice programs in Milwaukee for low - income students have similarly shown success.

In Mississippi, lawmakers have enacted three school choice programs in recent years: our charter schools law, the Special Needs Education Scholarship Account (ESA) program, and the Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship program.

For example, school choice programs in Florida for students in failing schools and for those with special needs have shown strong success in improving educational performance.

Today there are 48 school choice programs in 23 states, creating more than 3 million scholarship opportunities for children nationwide.

Views from Private Schools: Attitudes about School Choice Programs in Three States.

There are 59 school choice programs in 28 states and Washington D.C. and the vast majority of these programs have produced «Win - Win» results for students and schools.

Gov. Scott Walker will include a proposed expansion to school choice programs in Wisconsin in his upcoming biennial budget, including a scholarship for special needs students.

Districts may design school choice programs in a way that achieves diversity or avoids racial isolation using race - neutral factors (such as socioeconomic status) or generalized race - based factors that look at things like the overall racial composition of neighborhoods but do not involve decision - making on the basis of any individual student's race.

This is the same commitment that drives efforts to expand charter schools and other school choice programs in Mississippi.

The Institute for Justice, which defends school choice programs in litigation across the country, has used this ruling to demonstrate that vouchers and other school choice programs, like ESAs, are legal in Mississippi.

In fact, the public has gotten behind 41 school choice programs in 22 states and D.C., with over 250,000 students using these programs to attend private schools.

Starting in 2011 and expanded in 2013, Indiana joined this movement by enacting three bills — House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1001, HEA 1002 and HEA 1003 — which, when taken together, create one of the more comprehensive school choice programs in the nation (collectively the «Indiana Choice Legislation»).

When Friedman introduced these ideas there were two school choice programs in the country; town tuitioning programs in Vermont and Maine.

The authors highlight that private school choice programs in varied forms have been implemented in countries ranging from the United States to Colombia and Chile and from the Netherlands and France to India.

The 2016 - 17 Report Card not only assigns a ranking to all active, general education private school choice programs in the country, but also takes an in - depth look at program accountability, eligibility and overall size and growth.

2004 — CEI - PEA launched an initiative to develop public school choice programs in five major cities across the United States through a multi-year grant from the United States Department of Education.

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.

These tax credit programs, sometimes referred to as «neovouchers» or back - door vouchers, have received less public scrutiny than vouchers, even as they currently comprise the largest private school choice programs in numbers of students.

Notably, these are states that have had private school choice programs in place for at least a decade.

The LSP is one of the most heavily regulated school choice programs in the nation.

States like Florida and Indiana, which have robust school choice programs in place, are making small gains.

[27] Brian Kisida, Patrick J. Wolf, and Evan Rhinesmith, «Views from Private Schools: Attitudes about School Choice Programs in Three States,» American Enterprise Institute, January 2015, https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Views-from-Private-Schools-7.pdf (accessed October 26, 2016).

Today, the left - wing Center for Tax and Budget Accountability (CTBA) released a misleading report on school choice programs in Indiana and elsewhere.

Scholarship tax credits would expand educational opportunities for Idaho families, building on long - standing state policies encouraging private investments in education, as well as successful school choice programs in other states.

Last week, Mike Petrilli, President of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, published a series of blog posts at the Education Gadfly and Education Next critiquing an AEI study by Dr. Collin Hitt, Dr. Michael McShane, and myself discussing the surprising disconnect between the achievement and attainment effects from school choice programs in the US.

Paul DiPerna, the vice president of research and innovation for EdChoice, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss «The ABC's of School Choice,» a comprehensive guide to school choice programs in the U.S.

The CATO Institute has already weighed in, saying that the bill would «do a better job» than similar school choice programs in other states.

House Republicans» recent antipoverty blueprint describes school choice as an «increasingly important lifeline for children trapped in failing schools,» citing private school choice programs in Florida and Washington, DC, as examples.

In examining 23 different school choice programs in 12 states, I found that not only did private school regulations accompany school choice programs, but a majority were in place before those programs even existed.

School choice advocates should be very wary of the kind of right - of - center technocratic tinkering that has crippled school choice programs in Louisiana and Wisconsin.