Surf these sites: 4Choice - A workable school choice plan -- Common sense School Choice objectives. Funding follows students, empowering parents, without vouchers. Links to simplified model legislation. Academic Choices - YES; Vouchers - NO -- Vouchers are a bad delivery system that calls to mind standing in line for food stamps or filing a long government qualifying form like the college FAFSA Center for Education Reform -- Advocacy, statistics, resources and guidance on education reform issues and action at the school, district, state and national levels, from School Choice, charter schools, and educational entrepreneurialism to high academic standards, teacher professionalism and local control. Children''s Educational Opportunity Foundation -- Lots of school choice information. Look especially at their state by state summaries of current efforts. Choice Accomplished Kiwi-style -- A Cabinet Minister and a Member of New Zealand''s Parliament testifies to the overwhelming success of School Choice started in the 1970''s and completely implemented. Elimination of bureaucracy doubled classroom spending. Choice Options: School Choice, Yes -- But What Kind? -- Essay on the debate over "school choice" and the history and future of public education in America. Citizens For Educational Freedom -- Promotes the primary rights of parents with regard to freedom of choice, justice and quality in education for all regardless of wealth, color or creed by allocating a fair share of educational tax dollars for each child to take to the school of the parents'' choice while protecting parents and schools from undue government regulation and control. Cleveland Parents Satisfied with School Voucher Program -- A joint undertaking of the Taubman Center and Harvard''s Government Department, found two-thirds of the parents of students new to choice schools "very satisfied" with the academic quality. Contract management of public schools -- The experiences of school systems in the U.S. with private management hold valuable lessons for any school system considering contracting Dr. Quentin Quade''s essays on school choice -- Part of Blum Center at Marquette University''s effort to collect, organize, synthesize and distribute information regarding school choice efforts across the country. Education Policy Institute -- Documented inside information on PTA and teacher unions. Education research and policy analysis from a public choice and pro-market perspective, plus expert revelations on teacher unions, collective bargaining in education, PTA issues, and education reform matters. Educational Issues -- National Center for Policy Analysis whitepapers on education issues, particularly School Choice and teacher''s union obstruction of Choice reforms. Empower America Education Project -- Broad index of recent news articles on education reform issues. Faith in public schools fades -- African-American parents with children in Georgia public schools are more likely than white parents to think private companies should run those facilities, a new study suggests. Floridians for School Choice -- Action-oriented and effective advocacy for giving every family in Florida the opportunity to choose their child''s school using public education funds as a scholarship. Issues Bulletin - The Case For School Choice: Models from the United States, New Zealand, Denmark, and Sweden -- Fraser Institute studies application of other countries School Choice to Canadian policy Issues2000.org: School Choice -- Presidential candidates''s views on school choice and vouchers, both pro and con. Jews and School Choice -- School choice is the most readily apparent solution to the problem of assimilation...If the Jewish organizations could remove themselves from their lock step adherence to the liberal arguments of yesterday. Milton & Rose D. Friedman Foundation -- A foundation supported by Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman. Advocates restructuring the education system to ensure educational service competition and free choice. National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools -- An international coalition of schools, groups, home schools and individuals committed to creating an egalitarian society. Pennsylvania Education Reform -- A leading state reform website offers two school-choice initiatives -- Educational Opportunity Grants and the Academic Recovery Act; the text of Gov. Ridge''s radio addresses for April, May and June; and press releases on school choice. Watch a video that features state legislators and a Philadelphia grandmother describing the compelling need for school choice to help ensure Pennsylvania''s children get a quality education. Putting Children First -- Equal access to a quality education for Texas children through a pilot school choice program, to improve education and strengthen the public school system. Reason Magazine -- Lengthy and well-hyperlinked article thoroughly exploring aspects of choice. Be sure to click the Education link at page-end for dozens more articles spanning several years. School Choice - Public Vouchers -- Excoriates "The great liberal hypocracy" of opposing "Choice" School Choice Act - MODEL LEGISLATION -- Model School Choice legislation follows common sense objectives. Funding follows students, empowering parents, without vouchers. School Choice Programs: What''s Happening in the States -- This world renown conservative think tank publishes details and statistics on state School Choice efforts, and maintains links to many other Choice sites. School Choice support -- One good example of individual parent''s efforts to support School Choice. Links to presidential candidate position papers. School Choices: A Citizen''s Guide to Education Reform -- Historical precedents and the latest research demonstrating the best ways of organizing schools. Info comparing our current public school systems to free market alternatives based on vouchers, tax-credits, and privatization. Many essays, articles, book reviews, and complete book chapters are included. School Reform News -- Reprints of hundreds of education articles reporting on school reform efforts nationwide from School Choice to Teacher Unions. Its tone is objective and timely. School Vouchers Links -- Definitions of some common terms used regarding the issue as well as links to sites for and against school choice through vouchers. Teacher Unions and School Choice in Countries that have both -- Scholarly work includes lots of data by Alexis de Tocqueville Institution. Teacher Choice site chock full of articles! Teachers in Focus Magazine -- Choice research from teacher''s perspective. Census data says teachers are fifty percent more likely than the public at large to choose private schools. The Effectiveness of School Choice in Milwaukee: A Secondary Analysis of Data from the Program''s Evaluation -- For five years Harvard researchers refused to release their data for secondary analysis by other members of the scholarly community. Correcting for errors in the original analysis, this follow-up Harvard study finds that students enrolled in choice schools for three or more years did better than a comparable group attending Milwaukee public schools The Parent Information Center -- Assists parents in making informed decisions about the educational choices available in Colorado by producing a report card on public schools. Toward Tradtion - The Jewish position on education and choice -- Advocates School Choice based on traditional Jewish principles: parents must have responsibility and control, teachers and schools are agents of parents, education should inculcate values as well as knowledge. Refutes ADL paper opposing Choice. Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America -- Makes points that it feels unite a coalition of inner-city African-Americans, economic libertarians cultural conservatives, Republicans and Democrats, Jews, Christians and Muslims. Universal Tuition Tax Credit -- Mackinac Center for Public Policy - "Proposal to Advance Parental Choice in Education". Also available as a 76 page download. Why Real Educators Support School Choice -- Postulates that everyone who cares about the quality of education prefers School Choice over government school monopoly. Presents major arguments against Choice and debunks each one. Why School Vouchers Can Help Inner-City Children -- The Manhattan Institute feature article by The Honorable Kurt L. Schmoke, Mayor of Baltimore "The City That Reads.”
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