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Jeff Bernstein

Jindal: Now the work begins | The News Star | thenewsstar.com - 0 views

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    Jindal applauded state lawmakers for their quick passage of his legislation rewriting laws dealing with teacher tenure, charter schools, school administration and a statewide voucher program that funnels state money to private and parochial schools. Superintendent of Education John White said he will immediately start working on implementing the bills by soliciting private schools to determine capacity and develop lists to distribute to parents so they can file applications for vouchers next fall. But the part calling for local charter operators could take longer since there's a lot of preliminary work that has to be done. Jindal said he is "not declaring victory, mission accomplished" because "we've still got a lot of work in this session," like a bill that grants rebates to individuals and corporations that contribute money for vouchers.
Jeff Bernstein

Sara Goldrick-Rab: Vouchers and College Attendance: Puzzling Findings Deserve Much Caut... - 0 views

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    "Several months ago I described the problems in a study that seemed to have great policy relevance, but little empirical support for its contentions.  Sadly, examples of studies like these abound in education, and another is currently making headlines.  "Vouchers Boost Blacks' College Enrollment Rates," claim the stories-- and boy do the effects seem large! A "24 percent increase" in college attendance among black recipients of those vouchers-- what a dream. And it must be an accurate statement, right, since this was an experiment?"
Jeff Bernstein

Voucher Program Student Performance | Educate Now! - 0 views

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    In 2008, the Louisiana Legislature passed the Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence Program to provide tuition vouchers to low-income students in Orleans Parish to attend private and parochial schools or public schools outside of Orleans Parish.  The purpose was to give parents better, higher quality school options other than attending a failing school. Educate Now! analyzed the test scores for students in voucher schools and compared them to students in Recovery School District schools.
Jeff Bernstein

Keeping Informed about School Vouchers: A Review of Major Developments and Research - 0 views

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    This CEP report provides updated information for policymakers and others about the status of publicly funded voucher programs and the findings of major voucher studies published since 2000. Other types of programs also subsidize private school tuition- including tuition tax credits, specialized vouchers for students with disabilities, "town tuition" programs for remote rural students, and privately funded vouchers-but in order to produce a succinct report focusing on the most controversial form of subsidy, we limited our review to publicly funded voucher programs for general education students.
Jeff Bernstein

Private School Voucher Hearings This Week in Pennsylvania | Americans United - 0 views

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    The battle over the proposed Pennsylvania private school voucher program continues this week as the House Education Committee holds additional hearings on the issue in Harrisburg.  The Committee will hear testimony regarding the proposal on Wednesday, August 17, and Thursday, August 18. We strongly encourage you to attend and support those speaking out against private school vouchers.
Jeff Bernstein

What is Wrong with Vouchers? | Nicholas Meier - 0 views

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    "The rhetoric behind vouchers is that if everyone had vouchers parents could select the best school for their child instead of being forced to go to "government" schools*. Where does such logic fall apart? There are two main logistical reasons it is really a false promise. One is economic and the other is question of who gets to choose."
Jeff Bernstein

How Does the Public Feel About Vouchers? | Diane Ravitch's blog - 0 views

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    "I was on a panel last year with someone from the Friedman Foundation, and he waxed on about how wonderful vouchers are and how much the public wants them. He cited polls to prove his point. But there is only one poll that matters, and that is the one at the ballot box. That's why the information in this post is so helpful. Keep it in your wallet, or just remember this plain fact: voters have never approved a voucher plan."
Jeff Bernstein

The effects of generalized school choice on achievement and stratification: Evidence fr... - 0 views

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    In 1981, Chile introduced nationwide school choice by providing vouchers to any student wishing to attend private school. As a result, more than 1000 private schools entered the market, and the private enrollment rate increased by 20 percentage points, with greater impacts in larger, more urban, and wealthier communities. We use this differential impact to measure the effects of unrestricted choice on educational outcomes. Using panel data for about 150 municipalities, we find no evidence that choice improved average educational outcomes as measured by test scores, repetition rates, and years of schooling. However, we find evidence that the voucher program led to increased sorting, as the "best" public school students left for the private sector.
Jeff Bernstein

Voucher legislation ill conceived, won't help Pa. schools (11/16/11) - 0 views

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    An epic battle is shaping up that will determine the course of education in this country for years to come, and Pennsylvania is one of the fronts on which this battle is being waged. After rejecting voucher legislation in last year's legislative session, the Pennsylvania Senate at the urging of Gov. Tom Corbett, passed by a 27-22 vote a landmark school bill reflecting much of the governor's education agenda of taxpayer-funded vouchers, expansion of charter schools and a corresponding expansion of a school tax credit program.
Jeff Bernstein

Wis. Republicans and ALEC Push Vouchers on Disabled Kids | The Progressive - 0 views

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    It's crunch time on school vouchers for disabled kids in Wisconsin. Last summer, I wrote about how Republicans and school choice groups are targeting kids in special ed. A particularly noxious piece of "school reform" legislation, drafted by ALEC (The American Legislative Exchange Council) and pushed by Republicans in statehouses around the country, would get unsophisticated parents to swap their kids' federally protected right to a free, appropriate public education for school vouchers of highly dubious value to the kids.
Jeff Bernstein

Vouchers Are Ideal or Unneeded, Parents of Special Needs Children Say - On Special Educ... - 0 views

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    Special education has become the new wedge for advocates of school choice-private school vouchers, charter schools, and other options for public school students. Some school-choice proponents told me that students with disabilities inspire sympathy, and state lawmakers wouldn't stand in the way of their getting these additional opportunities. The big risk for parents who choose vouchers is that they'll lose their federal rights to be involved in their child's education as provided by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Jeff Bernstein

Education Week: Voucher Advocacy Shifting Focus, Report Says - 0 views

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    Voucher proponents have shifted their advocacy efforts from extolling the academic achievement of voucher participants to focusing on the value of school choice as a virtue in itself, according to a report from the Center on Education Policy, in Washington.
Jeff Bernstein

Private School Vouchers, Chilean Style - State EdWatch - Education Week - 0 views

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    As lawmakers across the country move to launch new voucher programs or strengthen existing ones, a new paper examines the record of one of the world's most expansive private school choice models: Chile's three-decades-old voucher model.
Jeff Bernstein

Education Week: Capacity Issues Loom as Voucher Support Surges - 0 views

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    State-level momentum in support of vouchers and tax credits that help students go to private schools highlights what, to this point, has been a largely theoretical issue: private school capacity to support voucher-financed enrollment.
Jeff Bernstein

Wisconsin Senate Blocks School Choice Expansion - 0 views

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    The Wisconsin Senate approved a measure Tuesday that would freeze the expansion of school vouchers and grant the Legislature the power to decide which schools or districts should qualify. The bill would limit voucher participation to school districts already in the program on the day the measure takes effect. Any school districts who want to get in after that would need separate legislation. The bill's author, Senate President Mike Ellis, R-Neenah, said the proposal would give the Legislature more say and flexibility on voucher expansion than the one-size-fits-all criteria laid out in current law.
Jeff Bernstein

Helicopters can improve minority college attendance & other misguided policy ... - 0 views

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    "Here's my quick response to the Brookings report released yesterday on the long term effects of vouchers on a randomized pool of participants in New York City."
Jeff Bernstein

Unintended Consequences in School Accountability Policies - Liberty Street Economics - 0 views

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    Over the past two decades, state and federal education policies have tried to hold schools more accountable for educating their students. A common criticism of these policies is that they may induce schools to "game the system" with strategies such as excluding certain types of students from computation of school average test scores. In this post, based on our recent New York Fed staff report, "Vouchers, Responses, and the Test Taking Population: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Florida," we investigate whether Florida schools resorted to such strategic behavior in response to a voucher program. We find some evidence that Florida's schools strategically reclassified weak students into exempt categories, and we draw some lessons that are applicable to New York City's education policies.
Jeff Bernstein

Indiana School Voucher Law Upheld, Ruled Constitutional - 0 views

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    A judge upheld Indiana's school voucher law on Friday, rejecting opponents' arguments that the largest such program in the nation unconstitutionally uses public money to support religion.
Jeff Bernstein

Charter Schools more like Vouchers: New Jersey Edition - 0 views

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    Legislation signed by Gov. Chris Christie will allow private schools in struggling districts to become charter schools. In this case it works just like vouchers where the money follows the child to the private school that the parent chooses.
Jeff Bernstein

Desperate Times in Cleveland and Ohio - Bridging Differences - Education Week - 0 views

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    The leaders of one of the most economically depressed and racially segregated cities in the nation have decided that the answer to its problems is to fire teachers, close public schools, expand the number of charters, and possibly to expand the voucher program as well. In the eyes of Ohio's elected officials, evidence about the past performance of charters and vouchers means nothing.
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