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	School Choice Wisconsin - About Us
		School Choice Wisconsin is a nonprofit organization that seeks to ensure an honest debate about school choice by providing accurate information on the impact of school choice on families, communities, and schools.
		School Choice Wisconsin also hosts informational visits to Milwaukee by groups from throughout the country interested in understanding the city's innovative educational programs.
		George Mitchell is an advisor to School Choice Wisconsin.
	www.schoolchoiceinfo.org /about (580 words)

	School Choice - School Vouchers, Charter Schools, K-12 Education Options
		A look at existing school choice programs triggered by failing academic performance and a consideration of the advantages and disadvantages of school choice legislation centered around failing schools, failing districts or failing students.
		Economist Poll Indicates Widespread Support for Vouchers A full 53 percent of Americans support the idea of school vouchers, compared to only 32 percent who oppose vouchers and 16 percent who are unsure, according to a new poll released today by The Economist.
		Americans Continue To Support School Vouchers, Harvard Poll Shows A plurality of Americans favor voucher programs that would allow low-income families to send their children to private schools, a new Harvard University and Education Next survey of 2,000 American adults revealed last week.
	allianceforschoolchoice.org (239 words)

	School Choice Links: Advocacy Groups, Policy Centers and Think Tanks (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Web page is devoted entirely to school choice, including: a state by state guide to education legislation, an overview of current research, and links to on-line classical education texts.
		Cooperative venture between the schools of education at UC Berkeley and Stanford University, PACE is an independent policy research center whose primary aim is to enrich education policy debates on preschooling and child development, K-12 school finance, and higher education outreach analysis and empirical evidence.
		Chicago-based grassroots school choice advocacy project sponsored by The Henry Hazlitt Foundation and The Heartland Institute.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/research/rapl/issues/schoolchoice/sc_advocacy.html (3564 words)

	School Choice
		For choice programs to involve a larger proportion of the student population, parents must be made aware of open enrollment procedures and deadlines.
		The responsibility of getting to the school of choice or to a regular bus route or school district boundary is commonly placed on the pupil's family rather than the school district of residence.
		If a school district receives an application from a pupil in a district with less local revenue or state aid allocation, and the funding formula uses the sending districts contribution, there is no incentive for a school district to accept that student.
	www.ncsl.org /programs/educ/choice.htm (1433 words)

	Pinellas County Schools - School Choice Plan Home Page
		During the first four years of "controlled choice," students will be assigned to schools using their attendance area residence, the capacity of schools, racial percentages and preferences.
		During the school year, the District Call Center for student reservations or the Family Education and Information Center (FEIC) assigns students who move to a different attendance area, students new to the district or those who leave a magnet, fundamental or high school career academy program.
		Charter schools are independent public schools operating under a contractual agreement with the Pinellas County School Board.
	www.pinellas.k12.fl.us /Choice (471 words)

	Public School Choice (Site not responding. Last check: )
		If a student transfers to a choice school, the school district must permit the student to remain in that school until he or she has completed the highest grade in the school, if the family remains in the district.
		School buses, public transportation, cabs and reimbursement to parents for mileage and related expenses and any other reasonable form of transportation are allowed.
		A public school of choice will be a school that is not in Title I School Improvement or considered to be persistently dangerous, but there are many other factors parents should consider when choosing a school.
	www.ncpublicschools.org /nclb/faqs/schoolchoice (2186 words)

	School Choice Boosts Public School Performance
		Because public schools improve due to competition, school choice benefits reach beyond those students who take advantage of the opportunity to attend a private school with a voucher or tax credit scholarship.
		Students in public schools where at least two-thirds of students were eligible for vouchers scored 8.1, 13.8, and 8.0 national percentile rank points higher in math, science, and language, respectively.
		Instead of vilifying school choice as an attack on public schools, school leaders should embrace choice as a way to get more resources for their students.
	www.cato.org /dailys/04-03-04.html (751 words)

	Milton & Rose D. Friedman Foundation: About School Choice (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Allowing all parents to direct funds set aside for education by the government to send their children to a school of choice, whether that school is public, private or religious.
		Allowing all parents whose children attend public schools identified as failing to direct funds set aside for education by the government to a better performing public, private or religious school of their choice.
		School choice will also enable teachers to create more effective partnerships with parents, and give parents more access to teachers, particularly since teachers would be more likely to answer to parents first.
	www.friedmanfoundation.org /schoolchoice/index.html (4158 words)

	ERIC/CEM - School Choice Discussion
		By the early 1990s, school choice was serving a wide spectrum of income and minority groups, according to a survey by the National Center for Education Statistics (1997).
		School choice is not new to American education.
		Choice is also manifest in parents' residential choices, their selection of day-care facilities, and their use of knowledge and social connections to secure certain teachers or programs for their children.
	eric.uoregon.edu /trends_issues/choice (746 words)

	Civic Report 12 \| The Effect of School Choice: an Evaluation of the Charlotte Children's Scholarship Fund, by Jay P. ...
		Parents were asked to assign their child’s school a letter grade, A through F. Nearly twice as many choice parents gave their child’s school an A (53%), compared to the public school parents (26%).
		Choice parents were also less likely to report that their school had a counselor, nurse, music program, art program, or prepared lunches.
		If these students were doing well in their public school they would have little reason to participate in the study where the primary incentive was the opportunity to win a private school scholarship.
	www.manhattan-institute.org /html/cr_12a.htm (3673 words)

	School Choice: 2006 Progress Report
		While school choice is expanding, millions of families still do not have the freedom to choose their children’s schools.
		Eight “random-assignment” studies of five school voucher and tuition scholarship programs compared the performance of students who were awarded scholarships to attend private school through a lottery system to the performance of their peers who entered the lottery but did not receive a scholarship and therefore remained in public school.
		Lawmakers implementing school choice programs should be optimistic that well-designed programs have been upheld by state courts across the country, but the legal challenges to school choice can be expected to continue.
	www.heritage.org /Research/Education/bg1970.cfm (3911 words)

	School Choice in Public Education and School Systems - The Public School Parents Network
		We hear about school vouchers, school choice and the "No Child Left Behind Act" but what does it all mean to you as a parent of a child within the public school system.
		Many questions about school choice will have to be answered by your local board of education, but the links on these pages are designed to help you understand what the options are, the pros and cons to those options and whether or not they are available in your state.
		If a school is identified for school improvement, corrective action or restructuring, in accordance with requirements under the law a district must provide all students in the school the option to transfer to another public school or public charter school no later than the first day of the school year following identification.
	www.psparents.net /school_choice.htm (517 words)

	School Choice
		Floridians for School Choice- A statewide, non-partisan, citizen organization dedicated to advancing public awareness of the benefits of school choice for children, families, schools, and the taxpayers.
		School Futures Research Foundation- School Futures is committed to providing every child with a world-class education.
		School Choice Wars - John Merrifield, economics professor at University of Texas, in articles and a new book, explains why K-12 schools governed by market forces would be much more attractive to teachers than the status quo.
	www.teach-nology.com /currenttrends/school_choice (1351 words)

	School Choice - Research, Assessment & Evaluation
		Note: Parents, you will be notified of choice assignments the second week of April, 2007 in time for the May 1 deadline for selecting the choice or magnet program you would like your student to attend next year.
		Choice assignments will be made in mid-March and will be selected through a computerized "Lottery" process.
		Questions regarding school choice should be directed to 927-9000, extension 32265.
	www.sarasota.k12.fl.us /rae/choice/choice.html (279 words)

	frontline: the battle over school choice: is "choice" the answer?
		A corollary to the idea of "school choice" giving parents and students greater options is the notion that creating competition in the school marketplace will stimulate innovation and improvement in all public schools.
		He cautions, however, that in many states charter school legislation does not allow for true competition for students and funding--local school boards maintain veto power over charter school applications, not all of the per pupil funding goes with the student to the charter school--thus defeating the goal of developing healthy competition.
		The pro-school choice Center for Educational Reform has collected and summarized data on the number of students participating in school choice programs, their demographic characteristics, and provides links to academic papers which conclude that existing voucher programs are successful.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/vouchers/choice (1022 words)

	HCPS: Hillsborough Choice
		Hillsborough County Public Schools offer a variety of school choices under the umbrella of Hillsborough Choice Options.
		School Choice provides parents and guardians with children entering kindergarten through eleventh grade the opportunity to choose three non-magnet schools.
		An option that allows the parent or guardian an opportunity to submit an application for a school that is at or over capacity.
	www.sdhc.k12.fl.us /choice (164 words)

	Massachusetts School Choice
		The law authorized the establishment of up to 25 charter schools for the 1995-1996 school year, with the stipulation that schools must be open to all students and could not charge tuition.
		Since 1996, several studies of charter schools conducted by the Pioneer Institute have found that, compared with conventional public schools, the charter schools are more effective in meeting the needs of traditionally underserved student populations, serving a higher percentage of low-income, bilingual, and minority children.
		A 1998 Pioneer Institute poll found high parental satisfaction with charter schools: 60 percent of parents whose children were in charter schools gave their schools an "A," compared to 37 percent of parents whose children were in traditional public schools.
	www.heritage.org /research/education/schoolchoice/Massachusetts.cfm (1902 words)

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