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Report
12.9.2015
Charter Schools, Governance, Private School Choice

America's Best (and Worst) Cities for School Choice

Priscilla Wohlstetter, Ph.D., Dara Zeehandelaar Shaw, Ph.D., David Griffith

More than twelve million American students exercise some form of school choice by going to a charter, magnet, or private school——instead of attending a traditional public school.

Report
8.6.2015
School Finance, Governance

Who Should Be in Charge When School Districts Go into the Red?

Dara Zeehandelaar Shaw, Ph.D., Victoria McDougald, Alyssa Schwenk

School districts across the land are contending with rising education costs and constrained revenues. Yet state policies for assisting school districts in financial trouble are uneven and complex. Interventions are often haphazard, occur arbitrarily, and routinely place politics over sound economics.