http://schoolchoicesaves.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:06:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Bob Maranto is featured in the Inquirer today writing on why Philadelphia needs charter schools: The academic data provided by No Child Left Behind show that Philadelphia's charter high schools achieve 95 percent of their academic goals, compared with 76 percent for district-run high schools. While 36 percent of Philadelphia's neighborhood ... http://schoolchoicesaves.com/2008/12/17/philadelphia-needs-charter-schools/ Jay P. Greene's blog points to a couple of recent studies on charter schools. The first one (link to full study here) shows that charter schools in Florida and Chicago have positive effects on both high school completion and college attendance. The second one, a study from our ... http://schoolchoicesaves.com/2008/11/14/charter-schools-save-money-kids/ The Alliance for School Choice have launched a new campaign -  Let Parents Choose - aimed at recruiting 10,000 activists and supporters of school choice. Anyone who registers at www.letparentschoose.org, will receive a free bumper sticker, a free school choice handbook, and school choice magazines. You can also join their Facebook group From ... http://schoolchoicesaves.com/2008/11/11/school-choice-works-parents-choose-kids-win/ By Martin R. West and Ludger Woessmann Higher private school share boosts national test scores Our findings from an international study of 29 countries speak quite clearly. Competition from private schools improves student achievement, and appears to do so for public school as well as private school students. And it produces these ... http://schoolchoicesaves.com/2008/11/10/school-choice-international/ The Center for Education Reform ranks Pennsylvania 12th out of 41 states in their 2008 survey of America's Charter Schools. In Pennsylvania This year 9 charter schools opened bringing the total to 132 schools serving 60,532 children. (as of April) Pennsylvania does not place a cap on the number of charter schools, ... http://schoolchoicesaves.com/2008/11/10/grading-charter-school-laws/ From Jay Greene's blog: In a speech in Pittsburgh today, Governor Palin endorsed the idea of special ed vouchers saying, "In a McCain-Palin administration, we will put the educational choices for special needs children in the right hands — their parents'. Under reforms that I will lead as vice president, the ... http://schoolchoicesaves.com/2008/10/27/palin-backs-special-ed-vouchers/ Whenever someone mentions school choice, most people's thoughts turn immediately to vouchers. Because traditional school vouchers don't exist in Pennsylvania, the REACH Foundation has set out on a mission to show parents, legislators and the general public what exactly we mean when we talk about school choice. In 2007, REACH launched ... http://schoolchoicesaves.com/2008/10/10/visions-of-school-choice/ Howard Fuller spoke during lunch in from of education reform advocates at a conference in Phoenix this Flypaper post from Mike Petrilli describes some of Howard Fuller's remarks. Fuller points back to a Sol Stern article and a Rick Hess piece which point to failure of the school choice movement to ... http://schoolchoicesaves.com/2008/09/11/school-choice-saves-students/ This is the first empirical study to examine the effects of Ohio's EdChoice voucher program. Using publicly available data, it measures the program's effect on academic outcomes in public schools where students are eligible for vouchers. This study finds that the EdChoice program produced academic improvements in voucher-eligible public schools. ... http://schoolchoicesaves.com/2008/08/23/edchoice-vouchers-improve-ohio-public-schools/ The REACH Foundation has a new "Voices of School Choice" profile on its website. This one is about Katie, who writes about how the choice of going to cyber school opened far more opportunities to her. REACH also has provided an info sheet and hosted a conference call (audio available) about ... http://schoolchoicesaves.com/2008/08/18/eitc-now-option-for-s-corporations/