School Choice Tradeoffs : Liberty, Equity, and Diversity.
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Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- ONE: School Choice Options and Issues: An Overview -- Why Change Current Policies? -- Why Use School Choice to Promote Equity? -- Types of School Choice -- Major Issues in the Choice Debate -- Educational Outcomes -- Liberal Democratic Theory and Education Policy -- Parental Rights and Equality of Opportunity -- The Constitutionality of Vouchers and Tax Credits -- The Economics of Choice -- Accountability versus Autonomy -- Designing a Choice Program that Promotes Equity -- TWO: The Outcomes of School Choice Policies -- Why Proponents Expect Choice to Improve Academic Outcomes -- The Effects of Competition -- Increased Parental Involvement and Better Matching of Students and Schools -- Democratic Control and Bureaucratic Inefficiencies -- The Particular Problems Facing Inner-City Schools -- Why Opponents Expect Choice to Lower Academic Outcomes -- Empirical Hypotheses Concerning the Impacts of Choice -- School Choice and Segregation -- How Do Parents Choose? -- Policy Implications -- Do Private Schools Teach Public Values? -- The Effects of Choice on Teachers and Principals -- The Effects of Choice on Parents -- The Effects of Choice on Academic Outcomes -- The Effects of Competition -- Comparing Public and Private Schools -- High School and Beyond -- Results from Other National Databases. -- Evaluations of Existing Choice Programs -- Privately Funded Voucher Experiments -- The Effects of Choice on Children Who Remain Behind -- Summary and Conclusions -- THREE: Political Theory and School Choice (coauthor: Richard Ruderman) -- Liberal Democracy -- Liberal Arguments that Education Is in the Private Sphere -- Liberal Arguments for Including Education in the Public Sphere -- John Dewey and Progressive Liberalism -- Sharing Educational Responsibility: The Ideas of Amy Gutmann.
Diversity or Autonomy -- Comprehensive Liberalism versus Political Liberalism -- School Choice and Communitarian Thought -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- FOUR: Parent Rights, School Choice, and Equality of Opportunity (coauthor: Jennifer L. Kemerer) -- Parent Rights in Education -- How Fundamental Are Parent Rights? -- Coupling Parent Rights with Free Exercise of Religion -- Contemporary Developments -- Racial and Economic Segregation in Traditional Public Schools -- Racial Segregation -- Economic Segregation -- Continuing Inequalities in Public Schools -- Racial and Economic Inequalities in Choice Schools -- Choice Schools and Ethnic Sorting -- Racial Balance Measures -- Achieving Diversity without Unconstitutional Discrimination against Parents -- The Case for Diversity -- Proxies for Race -- Summary -- FIVE: Vouchers and Tax Benefits: Tradeoffs between Religious Freedom and Separation of Church and State -- A Tale of Two Judges -- Judge Higginbotham and the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program -- Judge Sadler and the Cleveland Scholarship Program -- Differing Perspectives -- Vouchers, Tax Benefits, and the Federal Constitution -- Channeling Money to Sectarian Private Schools -- Channeling Money to Parents and Students -- The Significance of Federalism -- Vouchers and State Constitutions -- Restrictive States -- Prohibition on Vouchers -- No Direct or Indirect Aid to Sectarian Private Schools -- What Is ''Indirect Aid''? -- Funding for Public Schools Only -- Public Purpose Doctrine -- Judicial Precedent -- Permissive States -- No Anti-Establishment Provision -- Supportive Legal Climate -- Uncertain States -- Ambiguous Constitutional Terminology -- Absence of Authoritative Case Law -- Pending State Litigation -- Implications for Voucher Program Design -- Tax Benefits -- Summary -- SIX: The Economics of Choice.
Tiebout Sorting and the Median Voter Theorem -- Funding Public Schools -- Present Funding Patterns within States -- Financing Public Choice Programs -- Summary -- Promoting Efficiency in the Production of Education -- The Apparent Decline in the Efficiency of Public Schools -- Possible Reasons for the Decline in Productive Efficiency -- Changes in the Student Population -- Teachers' Unions -- The Cost of Educating Students with Disabilities -- Privatization and Vouchers -- Arguments That Vouchers Will Increase the Cost of Education -- Arguments That Vouchers Will Decrease Educational Costs by Increasing Efficiency -- Regulation versus Incentives -- Regulating Class Size Reductions (CSR) -- Summary -- Equity Considerations and Voucher Policies -- The Impact of Vouchers on Public Schools -- Conclusions -- SEVEN: School Choice Regulation: Accountability versus Autonomy -- Are Markets Preferable to Democratic Control? -- Classical Economic Theory -- New Institutional Economics -- Legal Constraints on Institutional Autonomy -- State Constitutions, State Regulation, and State Action -- Unconstitutional Delegation Law -- State Action -- State Statutes, Administrative Regulations, Charters, and Contracts -- School Choice Accountability: Michigan's Public School Academies -- Lessons from Privatization of Prisons, Public Housing, and Special Education -- Privatization of Prisons -- Privatization of Public Housing -- Contracting-Out Special Education to Private Schools -- Vouchers and Private School Regulation -- Implications for Policymaking -- EIGHT: The Politics of Choice and a Proposed School Choice Policy -- Political Forces that Oppose Expanding School Choice -- Producers of Public Education and Their Organizations -- Liberal and Minority Interest Groups -- Political Forces Supporting Increased School Choice.
Attributes of an Equitable and Efficient Policy Proposal -- A Proposal to Expand School Choice -- Accountability Provisions -- Additional Measures to Assist Low-Income Students and New Scholarship Schools -- Discussion of the Tradeoffs We Made -- Vouchers for All Income Levels and a Quota for Low-Income Students -- Allowing Schools to Charge Families Additional Tuition and Fees -- Transportation -- Student Admission -- Home Schooling -- Additional Benefits and Costs of the Proposed Policy -- The Political Feasibility of the Proposed Policy -- Charter Schools and Alternative Choice Proposals -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- 1. School Choice Options and Issues -- 2. The Outcomes of School Choice Policies -- 3. Political Theory and School Choice -- 4. Parent Rights, School Choice, and Equality of Opportunity -- 5. Vouchers and Tax Benefits -- 6. The Economics of Choice -- 7. School Choice Regulation -- 8. The Politics of Choice and a Proposed School Choice Policy -- Selected References -- Index.
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