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o FROM THE EDITOR: SRC wants YOU...!!
o School choice: the evidence comes in
o The surprising consensus on school choice
o How can we fix our public schools? By making them private
o Fiscal impact of tuition tax credits
o One small step for choice, one giant leap for bureaucrats
o School choice is out for summer
o Who would raise kids to 'fear' government?
o Homeschool loophole spurs call for charter law reform
o Public schools turn up their noses at proven textbook series
o Chicagoans love tuition tax credits
o 44 choice schools would close, Milwaukee educators fear
o Voucher experiments show competition works
o Bush-wacking by Hillary helps chill choice
o Democrats' illogic on vouchers
o Competition leaves no child behind
o Public schools, home schools, and private schools
o Fuller defends school-choice TV ads
o From delivery room to classroom: politician's orders
o 'Lies my unscrupulous educrat told me'
o Zero tolerance equals zero thinking
o No vouchers for you
o Blurry big picture on education?
o The trouble with the President's education plan
o 4Choice
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==> SCHOLARLY AND IN-DEPTH STUDIES <==
School choice: the evidence comes in
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by Hanna Skandera & Richard Sousa
"Critics of school choice have long asserted that it
would
lead the best and brightest students to desert public
schools, confronting such schools with an even worse
crisis than the one they already face. Milwaukee has had
a voucher program for 10 years. The result? Milwaukee's
test scores are up -- way up." (Spring, 2001)
hoover@free-market.net
http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/publications/digest/012/
skandera.html
The surprising consensus on school choice
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by Jay P. Greene
"What is striking about the recent research on school
choice is not just its quality but that it consistently
reveals positive benefits from school choice. Of course,
groups with vested interests in the results, such as the
teachers' unions and their allies, always prefer to
describe the results as mixed or inconclusive at best."
(Summer 2001)
http://www.thepublicinterest.com/current/article2.html
How can we fix our public schools? By making them private
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by Milton Friedman
"The widening gap between the cognitive elite and
unskilled workers is threatening to transform America, in effect
dividing the Republic into two nations, one in the first world, the
other in the third. How can we prevent such a division? Only by
providing good schools for all our children -- which in turn means making
our public schools private. Milton Friedman explains."
(Spring, 2001)
hoover@free-market.net
http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/publications/digest/012/f
riedman.html
The private can be public
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by John E. Chubb
"Businesses have always played an important role in
public schools, whether publishing textbooks or managing
payrolls. Now businesses are offering to manage entire
schools on behalf of public school boards, hiring
principals and teachers -- and taking responsibility for
the results. Will the profit motive benefit kids? The
answer, according to John E. Chubb, is yes." (Spring,
2001)
hoover@free-market.net
http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/publications/digest/012/
chubb.html
Fiscal impact of tuition tax credits
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by Joseph Bast
"[E]xamines the likely fiscal impact of two proposed
tuition tax credit plans for New Jersey. The plans would
prompt 7 percent of New Jersey students currently
enrolled in government schools to transfer to private
schools. The state treasury would realize a net annual
savings of $480 million." (Adobe Acrobat) (04/01)
http://www.heartland.org/studies/NJtaxcredit-ps.htm
For more Scholarly and In-Depth Studies see:
http://www.SchoolReformers.com/resources/bycategory/
in-depth/
==> NEWS REPORTS <==
One small step for choice, one giant leap for bureaucrats
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by Fritz S. Steiger
"Small steps in the right direction were taken this week
as the Senate passed the President's education package. While the package
has disappointed choice advocates, including me, it does include important
choice provisions." (06/15/01)
http://www.childrenfirstamerica.org/avfc/061501.html
School choice is out for summer
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Many advocates of school choice are complaining that the
education package that Congress is likely to pass is more of the status
quo, with little in the way of reform, after the Senate killed a federal
school choice pilot program. (06/14/01)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,27190,00.html
Who would raise kids to 'fear' government?
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by Vin Suprynowicz
The case of the homeschooled McGuckin family seems to show
that it is precisely one's distaste for being a victim
of the government which proves that one ought to have one's
rights stripped altogether ... at least in the minds of the mounties.
"The only specific allegation authorities have leveled against Mrs.
McGuckin to date? They say she drinks." (06/01/01)
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2001/Jun-10-Sun-2001/o
pinion/16268392.html
Homeschool loophole spurs call for charter law reform
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In response to news about a husband-and-wife team who were
able to keep much of the nearly $1.4 million they got from California to
run a homeschool of 300 students, state lawmakers and educators are urging
reforms to close an apparent legal loophole that lets some charter school
operators keep millions of dollars meant for children's instruction.
(06/15/01)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/
06/15/MN185441.DTL
Public schools turn up their noses at proven textbook series
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Kids, parents and many teachers love them, and they've
proven themselves in terms of classroom results, but the
math and other textbooks offered by Saxon Publishers
have found few takers among school administrators.
(06/19/01)
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16023-2001
Jun18.html
Chicagoans love tuition tax credits
----------
Illinois families, especially Chicagoans, are embracing the
state's $500 credit for tuition at parochial and private schools.
(06/18/01)
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/educ18.html
44 choice schools would close, Milwaukee educators fear
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Half the students in Milwaukee's private school choice
program might not have classrooms to return to in the
fall if a plan to slash voucher funding prevails,
according to a survey released Friday by choice
supporters. (06/15/01)
http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/jun01/choice160615
01a.asp
Voucher experiments show competition works
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"Competition fueled by school-choice programs across the
country from Milwaukee, Wis., to Pensacola, Fla., to San Antonio, Texas,
has improved the quality of education in those areas, says Matt Moore, an
NCPA policy analyst." (06/19/01)
http://www.ncpa.org/pi/edu/pd061901d.html
For more News Reports see:
http://www.SchoolReformers.com/resources/bycategory
/news/
==> COMMENTARY, OPINION, AND BOOK REVIEWS <==
Bush-wacking by Hillary helps chill choice
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by John LeBoutillier
"Led by Hillary Clinton -- rapidly becoming the
Democrats' lead attack dog -- the Democrats and the teachers' unions lied,
distorted and crushed the truth about the value of school choice."
(06/13/01)
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/6/13/6
5520.shtml
Democrats' illogic on vouchers
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by Scot Lehigh
"Above all, there is no evidence that students using
vouchers for private schools do better in school," proclaimed Senator
Ted Kennedy. Now, we all know that ideology breeds a lamentable
imperviousness to evidence, but come on! (06/15/01)
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/166/oped/Democr
ats_illogic_on_vouchers+.sh
tml
Competition leaves no child behind
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by Thomas Dawson
Dawson examines examples of communities that are embracing
school choice. (06/15/01)
http://www.heritage.org/views/2001/ed061501.html
Public schools, home schools, and private schools
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by Virginia Birt Baker
"Once home and private schools become part of
government-financed facilities or programs, they can no
longer remain 'private'; through government laws,
regulations, and conditions of funding they will be
nationalized and homogenized with their public
counterparts." (05/01)
http://www.educationnews.org/public_schools.htm
Fuller defends school-choice TV ads
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by William Raspberry
The black woman in the TV ad is so real, you'd think you've
seen her at the local supermarket. "The whole point of the
campaign," Fuller says, "is to engender a different
conversation about vouchers. We're using ordinary folks in the ads
because we want to dispel the notion that vouchers are some
right-wing conspiracy." (06/17/01)
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/editorial/944241
From delivery room to classroom: politician's orders
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"In one of the worst ideas to come down the pike in a
very long time, D.C. Council member Kevin Chavous wants to compel
children as young as 2 years old to attend school or prove that they are
being properly home-schooled." (06/20/01)
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20010620-46595593.htm
'Lies my unscrupulous educrat told me'
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by Matt Moore
"Union leaders and their allies have resorted to
outright
lies to protect their jobs. Ask any six-year-old and he
will tell you -- Bill Clinton's shining example aside --
that it is wrong to tell a lie. But this simplest of
schoolboy lessons has been lost on the critics of school
choice....As the choice movement has grown, so too has
the rhetoric served up by anti-choicers." (06/18/01)
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-moor
e061801.shtml
Zero tolerance equals zero thinking
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by John R. Lott, Jr.
"Welcome to the brave new world of 'zero-tolerance'
schooling, where young minds are molded to abhor
aggression .... What are we really teaching children by
zero tolerance? To see evil where none exists? Or that
justice is arbitrary and authorities are waiting to get
you?" (06/13/01)
http://www.latimes.com/news/comment/20010613/t000
049261.html
No vouchers for you
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by Sam MacDonald
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his union pals ignore the black
community's plea for school choice. (06/18/01)
http://www.reason.com/hod/sm061501.html
Blurry big picture on education?
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by Andrew LeFevre
"If we want to promote education reform in America, then
we need to look beyond the status quo and stop [the] stream of unnecessary
and extremely burdensome federal mandates." (06/13/01)
http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20010613-73
662494.htm
The trouble with the President's education plan
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by Matthew Brouillette and Mary Gifford
Worse than doing nothing, the [President's education] plan
erodes local control and further expands the federal government's
involvement in education." (06/19/01)
http://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/perspectives/0111.htm
For more Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews see:
http://www.SchoolReformers.com/resources/bycategor
y/commentary/
==> INSTITUTES, ORGANIZATIONS, AND CLUBS <==
4Choice
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"Don't create vouchers people need to qualify for. Make
it work the way public schools get paid now; the money simply follows the
kids. School Choice puts child-centered public funding ahead of
school-centered funding." http://4brevard.com/choice/
For more Institutes, Organizations, and Clubs see:
http://www.SchoolReformers.com/resources/bycategory
/organizations/
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