Can School Choice Keep Children Safe from Bullying?
…for a fact that parents and students who are using the K–12 voucher program in Washington, D.C., believe their private schools are much safer, and parents often list safety as…
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Introducing the The NEW and EXPANDED EdChoice Bundle
…school, parent satisfaction, civic engagement, and more. How does it work? And how is school choice funded? EdChoice 101: An introduction to the basics of school choice There are…
The Next Accountability Part 5: How We Get What We Want
…strengthened by the cultivation of non-governmental and—this is imperative—non-test-score-obsessed sources of school evaluation to serve parents. School choice has an information problem: Parents need better systems for finding out which…
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…charter schools. Parents who choose charter schools do so the same way many parents choose private schools—only charters are public and receive tax dollars. Homeschool Parents have to follow certain…
Improving America’s Classrooms Through School Choice
…individual merit via salary raises. As for parental involvement, a key reason it is low is that report cards and teacher conferences typically lack the critical information that parents need…
Why You Should Stop Complaining About Schools Marketing Themselves to Families
…of the least important pieces of information parents used to pick a school; only 10.2 percent of the parents who completed the survey listed higher standardized test scores as one…
EdChoice Public Opinion Tracker: Top Takeaways June 2020
…Are we seeing any differentiation by grade(s) or grade spans? How are districts communicating their plans with parents and teachers? 2. Most parents and teachers believe it’s at least somewhat…
Friday Freakout: School Choice Passes the Rotary Four-Way Test
…the number of Texas students who transferred to other district schools as evidence that parents are satisfied with their assigned schools, but that is a poor proxy for parental demand…
EdChoice Public Opinion Tracker: Top Takeaways May 2020
…to be consistent with recent AEI/Echelon Insights surveys of public school parents. That project also found that parents believed their children were learning less now with e-learning. They also said…
Miami Herald Misses Key Facts and Context in School Choice Takedown
…performance. Research shows parents care about more than test scores. In a recent survey of tax-credit scholarship families in Georgia, the Friedman Foundation found that parents consider “a variety of…