I review the literature on how parents select schools when participating in private choice
programs in the United States. I address two sub-questions. First, do parents have the …

School voucher programs are scholarship initiatives–frequently government funded or
incentivized–that pay for students to attend private schools of their choice. This study is the …

Indirect or delegated governance engages private organizations, tax expenditures, or
service users to deliver programs that would otherwise be provided by the government …

This chapter reviews the empirical evaluations of the achievement effects of private school
choice programs in the US, including voucher programs and tax credit scholarship …

This chapter expands the scope of the research to a new type of cost: organizational and
social costs associated with admitting, enrolling, and educating a new population of students …

Education savings accounts (ESAs) are education funding mechanisms that allow families to
receive a deposit of public funds to a government-authorized savings account for accessing …

Private school choice policies have been enacted and expanded across the United States
since the 1990s. By January 2021, 30 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico …

K-12 public education is a state responsibility and a federal interest, which means that state
lawmakers have the primary responsibility for adopting and revising the laws governing …

Decision-makers in Texas have proposed an Education Savings Account (ESA) that would
allow all families to take a fraction of their public education financing to a school of their …

No. 4930| December 20, 2018 congress left unfinished business in 2018. Lawmakers
considered proposals to create education savings accounts (eSAs) for children in military …