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Vouchers boost black students’ college enrollment rates by 24 percent and double student attendance at selective colleges, conclude researchers Paul Peterson and Matthew Chingos in the first study to track voucher students from kindergarten to college using the gold standard of research, random assignment, to compare students who ...

Louisiana lawmakers sent to Gov. Bobby Jindal two education bills that would establish the largest voucher program in the country, curtail teacher tenure, tie educator pay and job security to student performance, and expand charter schools. House bills 974 and 976 passed by solid margins a month after they were introduced, amid ...

This paper studies the effects of school reform in Chile, which adopted a nationwide school voucher program along with school decentralization reforms in 1981. Since then, Chile has had a relatively unregulated, competitive market in primary and secondary education and therefore provides a unique setting in which to study how ...

School choice could save the state of Vermont $80 million to $300 million per year, according to a study conducted by the Ethan Allen Institute, a public policy research and education group based in Concord. The report, released December 1, was compiled by the institute s Commission on Rebalancing Education Cost and Value to ...

A scholarship-granting organization that helps children attend the school of their family s choice across New Mexico celebrated its 10th anniversary on October 1. Over the last decade, Educate New Mexico has provided partial scholarships to more than 1,500 children from low- to moderate-income families through a random lottery. K ...

It took an act of God, converted legislators, and a U-Haul at the governor's mansion to bring meaningful school choice to New Orleans. As a result, the city's new $10 million needs-based voucher program may bring back some families who fled the city when Hurricane Katrina arrived three years ago. "It gives people who ...

In the real world, cash follows the consumer, causing institutions of worth to flourish, and those not of worth to wither. That's not true in education. Parents who want to send their children to private schools must still pay for the government schools they don't use. This strikes many people as unfair, and rightly so. Many ...

A report by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) offers an inside look at the organizations funding school vouchers and tax credit efforts nationwide. In “Strategic Grantmaking,” released November 27, author Rick Cohen identified more than 1,200 foundations that gave more than $380 million to 104 organizations ...

On November 6, the nation’s first statewide universal voucher program was defeated in Utah by a referendum vote. Since then, major newspapers and magazines have run stories questioning whether vouchers are dead as a form of school choice--and others have stated so outright. After all, they claim, if the idea won’t fly in ...

The Faith First Educational Assistance Corporation honored Wisconsin state Rep. Annette Polly Williams (D-Milwaukee) at its fifth annual Anniversary Banquet in Philadelphia in early November. Williams wrote the bill that created the nation’s first school choice program nearly 20 years ago in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Faith First primarily ...

A new survey commissioned by the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, a Kentucky free-market think tank, confirms most state residents believe "parents should have more choice in determining where their children attend school." While 79 percent of the 493 respondents support the concept of choice, the survey reveals ...

In early February, Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. (R) signed the nation's first law allowing all children to use state-funded scholarships to attend the school of their choice--a move some say might be the beginning of several such state laws nationwide. "For parents, this is reaffirmation of their right and responsibility to ...

Today, The Heartland Institute is releasing a Research & Commentary package addressing school choice, using Utah's Parent Choice in Education Act as a case study. The legislation provides Utah parents a voucher of up to $3,000 for each school-aged child for use at the school of their choice. This universal voucher program represents ...

On February 2, the Utah House of Representatives passed, by a 38-37 vote, a landmark measure that would give Utah the nation's first statewide universal voucher program. The Parent Choice in Education Act, H.B. 148, would give all parents in Utah a voucher valued between $500 and $3,000 per school-age child (depending on ...

On February 2, the Utah House of Representatives passed, by a 38-37 vote, a landmark measure that would give Utah the nation's first statewide universal voucher program. The Parent Choice in Education Act, H.B. 148, would give all parents in Utah a voucher valued between $500 and $3,000 per school-age child (depending on ...

In 2006, the Arizona Legislature passed two new educational voucher programs, each worth $2.5 million annually, for children in foster care and for children with disabilities. On November 14, 2006, school choice opponents filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the programs. Yet, as this report details, for decades ...

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Liberty & Learning: Milton Friedman's Voucher Idea at Fifty Robert C. Enlow and Lenore T. Ealy, editors Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 2006 166 pages, paper, ISBN: 1-930865-86-4, $11.95 In 1955, when Milton Friedman penned his essay "The Role of Government in Education" and laid out for the first time his arguments for ...

An incumbent congressman from Michigan lost his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives on August 4 in his state's Republican primary race. Rep. Joe Schwarz was defeated by political unknown Tim Walberg, who received 53 percent of the vote. Schwarz, a medical doctor from Battle Creek, was elected to Congress in 2004. Walberg ...

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