Schooling in America Series: Rural Revisited
…parents were more likely to say they have moved closer to a child’s school (77%) than both urban parents (61%) and all school parents (71%). A related question found parents…
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New EdChoice survey showcases parental satisfaction, choices among Indiana public, private and charter school parents
One-third of Hoosier parents unaware of state’s voucher, tax-credit scholarship programs INDIANAPOLIS—EdChoice, a national nonprofit organization that promotes state-based educational choice programs, today released a cross-sector survey of Indiana parents…
Standardized Tests: States Should Let Parents Decide
…parents showing parents do not treat test score information as a good measure of school quality. State governments should not be in the business of telling parents what metrics they…
Parents of School-age Kids Need Tech Support
…Black parents, would like to have some kind of hybrid learning schedule going forward. In total, 19 percent of Black parents would like to homeschool full time, while another 48…
Friday Freakout: Does School Choice Increase Inequality?
…live in districts with higher-performing public schools. By empowering all parents to pay for education directly, ESAs and other educational choice programs cut housing out of the equation. Parents no…
The Right Reasons for Supporting (or Opposing) School Choice
…increase per-pupil spending in local school districts. Studies also consistently show that programs increase parent satisfaction, racial integration and civic outcomes. It’s true that recent studies have reported some initial…
What Teachers Say About School Choice vol. 3
…program parents are some level of satisfied with their current schools of choice. That’s a 75 percent increase in parental school satisfaction based on their previous school satisfaction levels. Because…
2020 Schooling in America Series: Changing Perception on Schools and Record Support for School Choice
…America survey in order to gauge public and parental opinions during a fall semester that was ever-changing for education stakeholders. Perhaps exacerbated by “pandemic fatigue,” parents and the general public…
Challenging Suburban School Choice in Douglas County, Colorado
…to parents), and then parents made their own personal decisions about which school to choose for their children, there could be no violation of Colorado’s state constitution even if parents…
BRIEF: School Choice in the States – January 2020
…on Jan. 8 to the First Circuit Court of Appeals in defense of parents from Maine. The case, Carson v. Makin, is brought by parents in Maine who wish to…