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RESEARCH: School
Choice Impact on Public Schools
Education by the Numbers: The Fiscal Effect of School Choice Programs, 1990-2006
This study calculates the fiscal impact of every existing voucher and tax-credit scholarship program, in order to bring empirical evidence to bear on the debate over the fiscal impact of school choice. Of the 18 voucher and tax-credit scholarship programs in the United States, twelve began operations before the current school year and their fiscal impact can thus be assessed. – by Dr. Susan L. Aud, Senior Fellow, Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation, April 2007
The High Cost of Failing to Reform Public Education in Indiana
This study finds that one year’s worth of high school dropouts cost Indiana taxpayers $62.5 million per year in lost tax revenue and higher Medicaid and incarceration costs, or about $3,000 per dropout per year. Indiana districts with higher private school enrollment have lower public school dropout rates, due to the positive incentives provided by competition. A school choice program in that increased private school enrollment by 5 percentage points would reduce public school dropouts by 2,000 to 4,000 students, saving taxpayers between $6 million and $12 million every year. -- by Brian Gottlob, Senior Fellow, Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation, October 2006
Competition
Passes the Test
Do public schools respond to competition from private schools by improving
the quality of instruction? This is one of the key questions in the voucher
debate. Advocates of vouchers believe that public schools facing the threat
of losing students and funding to private schools will take the measures
necessary to raise student performance. Florida's A+ program affords a
unique opportunity to test these competing predictions. -- by Jay P.
Greene and Marcus A. Winters, Education Next, Summer 2004
Can
Competition Improve Educational Outcomes?
Two Georgia State University researchers present evidence that school
vouchers can work --- that competition among public and private schools
benefits all students. -- Gary T. Henry and Craig S.Gordon, Andrew
Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, Prepared for
the National Institute for Early Education Research, September 2003
When
Schools Compete: The Effects of Vouchers on Florida Public School Achievement
This study examines how Florida's failing schools in direct competition
with vouchers, or threatened by the prospect of vouchers, are making educational
gains greater than those of other low-performing schools that are not
facing voucher competition. --Jay P. Greene and Marcus Winters, Manhattan
Institute, 2003
School
Choice and School Competition: Evidence from the United States
World reknown researcher Caroline Hoxby explores the questions: "Do
public schools respond constructively to competition induced by school
choice, by raising their own productivity? Does students’
achievement rise when they attend voucher or charter schools? Do voucher
and charter schools end up with a selection of the better students (“cream-skim”)?"
--Caroline Hoxby, Harvard University, 2003
The
Effects of Town Tuitioning in Maine and Vermont
The author tests
the theory that competition for students forces all schools to improve
to attract more money and retain students - test scores were higher in
areas with the greatest possible competition and lower in areas with little
or no competition for tuition dollars. --Dr. Christopher Hammons, Houston
Baptist University, 2002
How
School Choice Helps the Milwaukee Public Schools
The report shows that Milwaukee's tax-supported educational choices do
not harm the Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS). In fact, after examining
eleven years of data, the report points out that MPS students made significant
academic gains during 1997 and 2001 when the school choice program was
experiencing its greatest expansions. --John Gardner, American Education
Reform Council, 2002
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