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Sunday, August 24, 2008

School Choice Benefits Ohio Public Schools

A new study from the Friedman Foundation finds that Ohio's EdChoice voucher program - offering scholarships to students in failing schools - resulted in academic improvements in voucher-eligible public schools.

On the other side of the equation, Jay Greene runs down the studies (random assignment experiments only) of the effects of school choice on participants - 90% of which show positive gains.

We've compiled more research on the benefits of school choice on the research section of SchoolChoiceSaves.org.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Do you have any research comparing the effectiveness of vouchers vs. the effectiveness of tax credit programs such as the PA EITC?

The PA EITC seems to be a poor substitute as it is limited by the legislature, fails to provide universal school choice, relies on corporate level taxation (and PIT paid by s-corp shareholders and partners), limits school choice to low income households and worst of all, is administered by the Department of Community and Economic Development---a travesty that should be eliminated.

Seems we can do better. I'd appreciate seeing data comparing tax credits to vouchers.

Nathan Benefield said...

Very good question and points, I have posted my thoughts in a new post here.