Information, resources, and links from the Independence Institute's Education Policy Center made available to Colorado school board members and candidates.
More than 4,500 charter schools serve 1.5 million children across the country. This chart provides state-by-state and national charter school and enrollment statistics, as well as links to addition...
The political momentum behind state-level
preschool programs is tremendous, but existing
proposals are often flawed and expensive. Preschool
can provide small but statistically significant
shor...
My slideshow begins with a description of how U.S. public and private schools are financed and the enormous disparities between rich and poor public schools, then describes the various school choic...
The report highlights the evolution of school choice in American history, from the colonial era to the present. Krista Kafer examines the trends, policies, laws, and court cases that have marked th...
As explained by author Marya DeGrow, conflict between some Colorado public school districts and parents led to the adoption of a 1988 legislative bill that established guidelines for home education...
The state-run K-12 school system in Kansas is essentially a monopoly. School choice –
and the competition it brings – could improve school efficiency and quality.
Would large-scale, free-market reforms improve educational outcomes for American children? That question cannot be answered by looking at domestic evidence alone. Though innumerable "school choice"...
In this paper we estimate the budgetary impact
of the Cato Institute's Public Education Tax
Credit model legislation on five states and present a generalized spreadsheet tool ("the Fiscal
Impact...
Pressing questions about the merits of market
accountability in K-12 education have spawned a
large scholarly literature. Unfortunately, much of
that literature is of limited relevance, and some...
Public education is an end, not a means. For a
democratic nation to thrive, its schools must prepare
children not only for success in private life but
for participation in public life. It must f...