Drew Catt
Mapping Drive Times from Private Schools in Nebraska
The States Ranked by Spending on School Choice Programs, 2022 Edition
2022 EdChoice Share: Where Are America’s Students Educated?
25 Years: 25 Most Significant School Choice Research Findings
The States Ranked by Spending on School Choice Programs, 2021 Edition
We’re used to people freaking out whenever states consider creating private educational choice programs. The common refrain goes, “But it will drain money from our already underfunded public schools. It will break our budgets!” There are a lot of problems with the ethos and the pathos of that response worth digging into another day, but […]
U.S. States Ranked by Educational Choice Share, 2020
Where are America’s students getting their education? Which types of schools and educational settings are they choosing? END OF Q3 UPDATE: Participation data updates were made for programs in Alabama, Arizona and Florida. The percentages for Arizona changed in the table based on those updates, as did the national level percentages. I also updated the […]
What Parents Think About Getting to School During a Pandemic
I started working on a new survey project a little over a year ago—a national, cross-sector survey of parents on K–12 transportation in the United States. I wanted to know the ways transportation influences parents’ decisions regarding where to send their child(ren) to school; what parents’ major preferences, challenges and concerns related to school transportation […]
Breaking Down Our National Survey Responses by Income, Political Affiliation and Community Type
In case you missed it, EdChoice released our reports from one of two waves of our Schooling in America survey. Although the crosstab files are available upon request and our blog post of key findings dives into the racial disparities, I still thought it’d be helpful to highlight some of the other demographic groups. Using […]
Key Findings from the Indiana School Voucher Program 2019–20 IDOE Report
Over the past few months, researchers have gotten used to state departments of education not releasing data on as regular a basis as they did pre-pandemic. They currently have their hands full figuring out what the fall might look like in their state. And I was honestly a little nervous to see the new Indiana […]