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DeAngelis, Corey A.; Burke, Lindsey M. – EdChoice, 2019
Private school choice options are being proposed and adopted in numerous states across the country. As of the spring of 2019, 62 private school choice programs were in operation in 29 states and the District of Columbia, serving more than 400,000 children. Although growth in private school choice programs and enrollment has been considerable over…
Descriptors: Private Schools, School Choice, Program Design, Specialization
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Wolf, Patrick J.; Harris, Douglas N.; Berends, Mark; Waddington, R. Joseph; Austin, Megan – Education Next, 2018
In the past few years, four states have established programs that provide public financial support to students who choose to attend a private school. These programs--a tax-credit-funded scholarship initiative in Florida and voucher programs in Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio--offer a glimpse of what expansive statewide choice might look like. What…
Descriptors: School Choice, Financial Support, Resource Allocation, Private Schools
Dynarski, Mark – Center on Children and Families at Brookings, 2016
Recent research on statewide voucher programs in Louisiana and Indiana has found that public school students that received vouchers to attend private schools subsequently scored lower on reading and math tests compared to similar students that remained in public schools. The magnitudes of the negative impacts were large. A case to use taxpayer…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, School Choice, Public Schools, Private Schools
Chakrabarti, Rajashri – Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2008
This paper examines the impact of vouchers in general and voucher design in particular on public school performance. It argues that all voucher programs are not created equal. There are often fundamental differences in voucher designs that affect public school incentives differently and induce different responses from them. It analyzes two voucher…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Program Effectiveness, Educational Vouchers, School Effectiveness
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1981
This report presents a review conducted by a multinational panel on educational policy in the United States. The report concentrates on compensatory programs in elementary and secondary education, with an emphasis on Title I programs. Topics covered include: (1) recent trends in American education; (2) the philosophy, operational design, and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Involvement, Compensatory Education, Competency Based Education