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Cover graphic: Trends & Best Practices for Education Management Organizations Trends & Best Practices for Education Management Organizations (2003)
This paper examines the interplay of education management organizations in the context of contemporary American schooling, and in so doing, seeks to understand their recent emergency and possible future.
Cover graphic: Analysis and Implications of Proposition 38: Will Vouchers Improve Student Access to Private Schools? Analysis and Implications of Proposition 38: Will Vouchers Improve Student Access to Private Schools? (2000)
"...the details of the initiative, coupled with the projected capacity, costs, and admission practices of California private schools, would largely limit any expanded private school choice to more-advantaged families."
— from the WestEd Policy Brief
Cover graphic: What We Know about Vouchers: The Facts behind the Rhetoric What We Know about Vouchers: The Facts behind the Rhetoric (1999)
This report describes the variety of publicly funded voucher programs in operation at the state and local level. It examines existing research into whether voucher programs improve or erode the quality of education and looks at alternative enrollment options. Finally, the report offers recommendations to policymakers, educators, and parents involved in the continuing debate over school vouchers.
Cover graphic: Private School Vouchers: Issues at a Glance Private School Vouchers: Issues at a Glance (1996)
This document discusses "private school choice," or voucher programs, that allow parents to put tax dollars toward a private education. It presents the different types of voucher programs, the status of vouchers, and arguments in support of and against vouchers.


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