Krista Kafer
The Heritage Foundation
May 2003
This new publication by the Heritage Foundation provides a snapshot of school choice throughout America, covering everything from public school choice policies to charters and vouchers. It devotes several pages to each state, describing in detail both their choice programs and their educational performance. It also provides basic data on states' school systems, expenditures, and teachers, along with a listing of organizations active in each locale. The introduction serves as a useful primer on recent developments in school choice, and the book is a handy reference guide for anyone working in education. Heritage is also developing a website to accompany the book, so that readers can quickly get the most up-to-date information. Both the hardcopy publication and the on-line version are available at http://www.heritage.org/Research/Education/Schools/schoolchoice_2003.cfm.
