Had our public education system been funded
using school choice mechanisms in the past, they all might be experiencing a different present.
Not exact matches
Their interests have shifted from promoting
choice as the goal to
using choice as a
mechanism for obtaining more quality
schools.
A large number of
school choice systems
use merit - based assignment
mechanisms in which students have incomplete information and constraints on the number of
choices they can list.
What isn't mentioned here, but has been by the UCLA Civil Rights Project, is that the most widely
used mechanism of «
choice» in the state, that is charter
schools, has increased economic and ethnic segregation in the
schools (see its study).
Chris Lubienski's research centers on public and private interests in education, including the
use of market
mechanisms such as
choice and competition to improve
schooling, especially for disadvantaged children.
Many public
school choice programs
use centralized
mechanisms to match students with
schools in absence of market - clearing prices.
For the coming
school term, it appears as though a federal tax credit scholarship program included in a tax - reform package may be the
mechanism used to fund
school choice.