In some cases, formal governance changes may be necessary to address the challenges to
making school choice work for all families.
What considerations are not being addressed as part of a larger discussion on
how school choice works for these families?
The comprehensive nature of the survey instrument and the large sample size allow for an unprecedented assessment of
how school choice works.
Making
school choice work requires engaged and mobilized families who can help address the human side of choice and competition in schools.
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.
In early December, as part of our Making
School Choice Work project, CRPE will release the results of a parent survey illustrating how families experience school choice in eight cities, including Detroit.
But making
school choice work also requires engaged and mobilized families who can help address the human side of choice and competition in schools.
«Evidently, district officials only believe that
school choice works if it benefits their own district's bottom line.
Research Shows that
School Choice Works May 31, 2016 by Grant Callen School choice programs provide families with life - changing options in where they send their children to school.
If Solanco
believes school choice works for their own district, they should embrace legislation that will provide school choice to students across the state.»
Mike DeArmond discusses how the theory
of school choice works for families in the real world, drawing on a lively session from CRPE's February Portfolio meeting.
Making
school choice work requires bureaucratic policy solutions, often technical ones, to make the market for schooling more fair and responsive.
To learn more about
how school choice works, and what options might be available to your children, visit our Guide for Parents.
If we could
make school choice work for families again instead of for institutions by publicly supporting a common transportation, enrollment, scorecard, special education, and data system, I think school choice could be a positive force for school quality.
Make
school choice work for the most disadvantaged.
It feels like almost everything of note gets lost in debates about whether «
school choice works» and amidst hoary claims of «privatization.»
Lake also recently coauthored a terrific report (note the pragmatism baked into the title) called Making
School Choice Work.
Professor Richard Murnane, the student - selected faculty speaker, reflected on five decades of education and the five challenges currently facing all educators around the world: make equality a reality for all children; use money so it affects students» daily experience; create schools that prepare children for the future; make
school choice work for the most disadvantaged; and create school accountability systems that improve education for all our children.
This article is adapted from Michael DeArmond, Ashley Jochim, and Robin Lake, «Making
School Choice Work,» Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2014.
Efforts are underway in many major cities to make
school choice work for families through district - charter partnerships.
We know that
school choice works and we know parents are hungry for more options.
Despite the overwhelming evidence that
school choice works, opponents of parental choice have increasingly stepped up their efforts to defeat these common - sense educational reform measures.
Most recently he co-authored two CRPE reports on the challenges of public oversight in cities with large charter school sectors — «Making
School Choice Work: It Still Takes a City» and «How Parents Experience Public School Choice» — and «Measuring Up,» a look at educational improvement and opportunity in 50 cities.
«The EITC has certainly demonstrated that
school choice works and is well - received in Pennsylvania.
Michael DeArmond explains how city leaders can make
school choice work for all families, in this essay prepared for the PIE Network 2014 Policy Summit.
Making
school choice work.
With Boalt colleague Stephen Sugarman, he has co-authored several books, including Private Wealth and Public Education (1970), Education by Choice (1978), Scholarships for Children (1992), and, most recently, Making
School Choice Work for all Families (1999).
Are we overlooking neighborhoods in America that are already home to plenty of poor kids, and that contain the population density necessary to make
school choice work?
That is just how
school choice works.