http://schoolchoicesaves.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:56:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ George Clowes, Heartland Institute Executive Summary This paper addresses concerns about the efficacy of school vouchers that have been raised recently because of disillusionment among some school choice advocates over the limited academic improvements that voucher competition has produced in the Milwaukee Public Schools. That has prompted questions about whether vouchers are ... http://schoolchoicesaves.com/2008/08/14/can-vouchers-reform-public-schools/ The Schott Foundation has a new report out on black male graduation rates - in public schools - and the gap between black and white performance. In PA, the Graduation rate for black males is 58% vs. 84% for whites (states chart). In Philadelphia (the 3rd largest in terms of ... http://schoolchoicesaves.com/2008/07/31/public-schools-leave-black-males-behind/ Steve Chapman writes how Barack Obama - the "candidate of change" - rejects school choice (as policy, though he doesn't practice what he preaches), despite its success. Obama is the staunch defender of the existing public school monopoly, and he's allergic to anything that subverts it. ...  You would think a leader ... http://schoolchoicesaves.com/2008/07/25/%e2%80%9cno-you-can%e2%80%99t%e2%80%9d/ The Cato Institute blog reports that Barack Obama told members of the American Federation of Teachers he is opposed to school vouchers, when referring to the "tired rhetoric about vouchers and school choice." What he conveniently left out is that he takes full advantage of school choice by enrolling his ... http://schoolchoicesaves.com/2008/07/15/school-choice-good-for-obama-%e2%80%93-but-not-for-you/ American's for Tax Reform has a short primer on the success of school vouchers, scholarship, and tax credit programs: There have been a total of ten studies of voucher programs that have used the 'gold standard' of social science research, random assignment. Not a single study using this method has ... http://schoolchoicesaves.com/2008/07/15/school-vouchers-101/ Andrew Coulson comments on an NRO article highlighting a DC Opportunity Scholarship recipient who just graduated at the head of her class at Archbishop Carroll High School. The article notes that the student couldn't have afforded private school otherwise, and will be the first in her family to attend college. ... http://schoolchoicesaves.com/2008/07/07/school-choice-helps-student-achieve-dreams%e2%80%a6-gets-canceled/ The Fordham Institute blasts a Philadelphia Inquirer story calling the Philadelphia public school's removal of six private managers a "blow to the experiment": Kristen Graham of the Philadelphia Inquirer begins her reportage about the city's experiences with private operators of public schools with this sentence: "In a blow to the Philadelphia School ... http://schoolchoicesaves.com/2008/07/02/why-school-choice-is-more-accountable/ State Rep. Karen Beyer, along with the Rendell administration, lobbyists for the teachers unions, and the school boards association, has been doggedly seeking to reduce funding for Pennsylvania's public cyber schools. So persistent is Beyer that after her bill stalled in session, she attached it as an amendment to a ... http://schoolchoicesaves.com/2008/07/01/cyber-school-funding-formula-the-wrong-mixture/