WHAT WE’RE READING
“Tennessee Republicans want a Houston-style takeover of Memphis schools. What does that mean?”—Bri Hatch, Chalkbeat Tennessee
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Echoing Chad Aldeman, Matt Barnum digs into the challenge of assessing student outcomes for the growing number of children using ESA and voucher programs. As private school choice options expand nationwide, the lack of comparable data—or any public data at all—makes it nearly impossible to see what’s working and what’s not. A case in point is North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship program. “There is no publicly available testing data for how North Carolina’s more than 100,000 private school voucher students are performing.” —T. Keung Hui, The Charlotte Observer
Editor's note: This was first published on Mike Petrilli's Substack, SCHOOLED, a twice-weekly free Substack and email newsletter restarting the education-reform conversation.
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