Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Matchmaking: Enabling Mandatory Public School Choice in New York and Boston « Docuticker


Matchmaking: Enabling Mandatory Public School Choice in New York and Boston « Docuticker:

"From tuition vouchers for private schools to charter schools to voluntary transfer programs within and between public school systems, school choice has been at the center of the school reform debate for two decades. But with the voucher movement unable to sustain much momentum, charter schools still serving a small percentage of the nation’s students with mixed results, and the public school choice system in the federal No Child Left Behind Act plagued by low participation rates, New York City’s public high school selection system stands out as a model strategy for harnessing the power of the marketplace to better serve students’ diverse educational interests and needs and to stimulate improvement through competition for students."