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October 13-19, 2000
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Updated 5:00 p.m. PDT
Publicly funded voucher programs exist in Milwaukee, Cleveland and in the state of Florida. In those locations, vouchers are limited to low-income students or to students in failing schools. How successful have publicly-funded voucher programs been in those cities and state? We have found several analyses of those programs.
- The Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs in Madison, Wisconsin presents a description of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program and the data being collected, a description of the choice families and students who apply for the program and four- and five-year reports on outcomes.
- The Center for Education Reform presents links to information on school choice in Florida, Cleveland and Milwaukee.
- Cleveland's Education Scholarship Program presents an evaluation of the Cleveland Scholarship Program by the Program on Education Policy and Governance jointly sponsored by the Taubman Center on State and Local Government, Kennedy School of Government and the
Center for American Political Studies Department of Government Harvard University.
- "School Choice and Urban School Reform," by Peter W. Cookson and Sonali M. Shroff (Teachers College Columbia University), presents a spectrum of school choice options that currently exists in various places across the country.
- "What Really Matters in American Education" - This white paper prepared for U.S. Secretary Richard Riley takes a critical view of voucher programs.
- "What We Know about Vouchers: The Facts behind the Rhetoric," (pdf version)(1999) by Erica Adelsheimer and Kate Rix.- This report examines the most current research on vouchers to date. Topics include the legal status of publicly funded voucher programs, other mechanisms for providing school choice and issues policymakers should consider when making decisions regarding voucher programs.
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