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A growing body of empirical evidence demonstrates the many positive benefits of providing choice in education.

What is the measure of a good school? And who is best positioned to decide what works? For decades, policymakers, and education officials have attempted to bolster school “accountability” by increasing regulations on schools across the board—public, charter, and private. They have tried to do so at the federal level for half a century, with federal intervention in K-12 education hitting a high-water mark under the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind policy and the Obama administra...

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Some of the poorest performing public schools in America can befound in the nation's capital. Despite per-pupil expenditures ofmore than $11,000, 94 percent of 4th grade students in Washington,D.C., are not proficient in math, and 90 percent lack proficiencyin reading, according to the National Assessment of EducationalProgress (NAEP). Given the failure of other reforms to improve thecity's poor academic achievement and the growing recognition thatadditional funding alone will not impr...

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Many low-income parents Milwaukee’s predominantly African American and Latino neighborhoods say voucher programs are the only way their children can attend faith-based institutions.

School choice allowing taxpayer money to pay for private school tuition instead of only financing public schools has become another front in the partisan battles over education this election season.

Betsy DeVos’s confirmation hearing to be education secretary featured ample debate about policies ranging from school vouchers to student loans and grants. Secretary-designate DeVos echoed strong support for school choice policies, from private school choice to public charter schools. Her position is, as Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., noted, “in the mainstream of public opinion.”

School choice — allowing taxpayer money to pay for private school tuition instead of only financing public schools — has become another front in the partisan battles over education this

School choice is one of many education issues that have become a partisan battleground, bringing parents to the polls this fall