From creating tradable «enrollment rights» to help integrate schools to providing parents with
better school performance information, a new book that aims to stake out a middle ground in the debate over school choice offers ways to enhance the benefits while mitigating the risks.
Such resources might include an incubator for new schools; a network of organizations willing to provide management consulting and other services in return for fees paid by individual schools; organizations to analyze and
publicize school performance information; and an independent inspectorate to assess the performance of individual schools in light of the challenges they face.
Instead, state leaders should work to strengthen state standards and tests,
provide school performance information to parents and taxpayers, and empower parents to act on school performance data by offering more school - choice options.
• there is no default assigned school (everyone must choose); • there is a common application; • there is rich, valid, and comparable information on school performance (including test results that incorporate academic growth); •
school performance information is clearly presented (including support for less educated parents); and • there is an assignment algorithm that maximizes the preferences expressed by all parents and the resulting school assignment for all students.
Look up Ofsted reports, local news reports,
school performance information.