Research
Independent research supports the need for—and the benefits of—school choice. Read more about school choice in general, by state, or by topic. To read fact sheets—developed with the help of many sources—visit our facts page. So, what does the research say about school choice? Here’s a preview:
- School choice improves student academic achievement.
- School choice saves tax dollars.
- School choice yields high parental satisfaction.
- School choice improves public schools.
- School choice helps children with special needs.
Arizona
Competition
- Can Increasing Private School Participation and Monetary Loss in a Voucher Program Affect Public School Performance (Chakrabarti), Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2007
- How School Choice Affects the Achievement of Public School Students (Hoxby), 2002
Florida
- The Corporate Income Tax Credit Scholarship Program Saves State Dollars, The Florida Legislature Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability, 2008
- The Effect of Special Education Vouchers on Public School Achievement: Evidence From Florida’s McKay Scholarship Program (Green and Winters), Manhattan Institute, 2008
- Lost Opportunity: An Empirical Analysis of How Vouchers Affected Florida Public Schools (Forster), The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, 2008
- Feeling the Florida Heat? How Low-Performing Schools Respond to Voucher and Accountability Pressure (Rouse, Hannaway, Goldhaber and Figlio), Urban Institute, 2007
- Vouchers for Special Education Students: An Evaluation of Florida’s
- McKay Scholarship Program (Greene and Forster), Manhattan Institute, 2003
- The Effects of Vouchers on Florida Public School Achievement (Greene and Winters), Manhattan Institute, 2003
- The Florida Corporate Income Tax Credit Scholarship Program: Updated Fiscal Analysis Collins Center for Public Policy, 2007
- Demography Defeated: Florida’s K-12 Reforms and Their Lessons for the Nation (Lips and Ladner), The Goldwater Institute, 2008
General
Ohio
- Ohio’s Opinion in K-12 Education and School Choice
- Executive Summary on Ohio’s Opinion in K-12 Education and School Choice
- Promising Start: An Empirical Analysis of How EdChoice Vouchers Affect Ohio Public Schools Forster, The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, 2008
- An Evaluation of the Cleveland Voucher Program After Two Years (Peterson, Green, and Howell), Harvard University, 1999
- Evaluation of the Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Program (Plucker), Center for Evaluation & Education Policy, 2006
Washington, D.C.
- Fork in the Road Poll regarding D.C. resident support for education reform initiatives, including the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. July 2009
- Evaluation of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program: Impacts After Two Years U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, 2008
- Ongoing U.S. Department of Education Evaluation of the Impact of the DC Choice Program U.S. Department of Education, Institute of
- Education Sciences, 2004-2009
- School Choice Demonstration Project Evaluation Reports Georgetown University, 2005-2007Georgetown Studies
- Results of a School Voucher Experiment (Wold, Peterson, West) Georgetown University, 2001
- Spreading Freedom and Saving Money (Aud, Cato and Friedman) 2002
Wisconsin
- Who Gains, Who Loses? The fiscal impact of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (Costrell) Education Next, 2009
- School Choice Demonstration Project Evaluation of Milwaukee Parental Choice Program University of Arkansas, 2008
- Graduation Rates for Choice and Public School Students in Milwaukee Warren, School Choice Wisconsin, 2008
- School Choice and Community Renewal School Choice Wisconsin, 2007
- Graduation Rates for Choice and Public School Students in Milwaukee (Greene), Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2004
State By State A look at school choice programs