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Featured Articles

School Choice means more money for Public Schools

• Utah Public Education Funding: The Fiscal Impagt of School Choice (2007)
  In this report, Dr. Susan Aud, PhD, finds that vouchers will save Utah taxpayers millions every year.

• Estimating Demand and Supply Response to Tuition Tax Credits for Private School Tuition in Utah (2004)

  In this report commissioned by the Utah State Legislature, two Utah State Univ professors find that school choice could save taxpayers over $1 billion in 13 years.

• Education by the Numbers: The Fiscal Effect of School Choice Programs, 1990-2006 (2007)
  Since 1990, school choice programs across the nation have saved taxpayers about $444 million.

School Choice Improves Education

for ALL Students

• Survey of School Choice Research (2005)

  A review of scholarly research on vouchers, put together by researchers at Marquette Univ.

• Competition Passes the Test (2004)

  More evidence from Florida that public schools improve when parents are empowered through school choice.

• Rising Tide (2001)

  Harvard professor Caroline Hoxby finds that public schools raise achievement when faced with competition.

School Choice helps Low-Income and Minority Children

• Freedom from Racial Barriers: The Empirical Evidence on Vouchers and Segregation (2006)
  This overview of valid empirical studies finds that voucher schools are less segregated than neighboring public schools.
• Opening Doors: How Low-Income Parents Search for the Right School (2007)
  Researchers at the Univ of Washington dispel the myth that low-income families are incapable of making good choices when allowed to select their children's school.

School Choice Benefits Teachers

• Empowering Teachers with Choice: How a Diversified Education System Benefits Teachers, Students, and America (2007)

School Choice is Constitutional

• Vouchers and Tuition Tax Credits are Constitutional in Utah (2007)
  By Max Miller, JD, Parsons Behle & Latimer (located in Salt Lake City) and Richard Komer, JD, Institute for Justice

School Choice: A Reform that Works

This report reviews the need for more school choice and presents six model bills to help lawmakers fashion highly effective, constitutionally sound school choice legislation in their state.

Featured Books

Liberty & Learning: Milton Friedman's Voucher Idea at Fifty, edited by Robert C. Enlow and Lenore T. Ealy (2006).  This collection of essays from the nation’s top education experts evaluates the progress of Friedman’s innovative idea and reflects on its merits in the 21st century.

School Choice:  The Findings, by Herbert J. Walberg (2007).  The most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis available on the effectiveness of charter schools, private schools, and voucher programs.

Capitalism and Freedom, by Milton Friedman (1962).  The original classic. 

Educational Freedom in Eastern Europe, by Charles L. Glenn  (1995). The untold story of school choice in Eastern Europe.

Education Myths:  What Special Interest Groups Want You to Believe About Our Schools -- And Why It Isn't So, by Jay P. Greene (2005).

What America Can Learn from School Choice in Other Countries, edited by David Salisbury and James Tooley (2005).

Market Education: The Unknown History, by Andrew J. Coulson (1999).

Research by Topic

• Utah Specific

• Vouchers & Tuition Tax Credits

• Home Schooling

• Charter Schools & Public School Choice