Does School Choice “Work”? By Frederick M. Hess. Education Week. May 22, 2024. In “Straight Talk with Rick and Jal,” Harvard University’s Jal Mehta and I examine the reforms and ...

Does School Choice ‘Work’? It’s more complicated than either side acknowledges By Rick Hess — May 21, 2024 10 min read. DigitalVision Vectors/Getty. Share article; Remove Save to ...

Illinois has rejected school choice legislation before — because it doesn’t work. The 2017 Invest in Kids Act, which privately funded scholarships for 15,000 students, ended in 2023.

School Choice. Could School Choice Work at the Federal Level? A nationwide tax credit could expand education freedom overnight—but could also open the door to new forms of federal overreach.

Pick five! New Yorkers can yet again select as many as five candidates in the mayoral race and other contests up and down the ballot during the Big Apple’s June 24 primary elections, thanks to ...

In states that adopted a school choice policy before 2013 and therefore always had a school choice policy between 2013–2014 and 2022–2023, high school tuition increased by about 8 percent.

Illinois has rejected school choice legislation before — because it doesn’t work. The 2017 Invest in Kids Act, which privately funded scholarships for 15,000 students, ended in 2023.

Does school choice work? That depends on who you talk to and what you mean by "work." For education researchers and policy wonks, school choice works if it raises math and reading scores for ...

Does school choice work? That depends on who you talk to and what you mean by "work." For education researchers and policy wonks, school choice works if it raises math and reading scores for ...

So, does school choice improve education outcomes for students enrolled in these programs? Education scholars M. Danish Shakeel, Kaitlin P. Anderson, and Patrick J. Wolf argue the answer is yes.

About 377,000 students, or 7% of public school children, attended a charter school during the 2021-22 school year. That year, Texas had about 1,070 state-authorized charter schools.

Those expenses include nonpublic school tuition, tutoring, textbooks and other costs. “There’s a lot of ideas out there on ...