Author
Lindsey M. Burke
Articles
Trump and the Nation’s Schools
Assessing the administration’s early impact on education
A Strong Start on Advancing Reform
Forum: Trump and the Nation’s Schools
Blog Posts/Multimedia
Some Regulations Deter Private Schools from Participating in Voucher Programs
Rules preventing participating schools from having specific admissions policies and requirements that schools take state standardized tests both reduce the likelihood that private schools say they will participate in voucher programs.
The Risks Exceed the Rewards: A Nationwide Federal Tax Credit Scholarship Program
The administration’s support of school choice is praiseworthy, but a federal tax credit scholarship program poses a threat to education choice in the states and undermines conservative efforts to streamline the federal tax code.
Survey Says: Parents Want School Choice
The nation’s largest private school choice program is effective, popular, and money-saving. And yet, it could be on the chopping block.
Do Voucher Regulations Reduce Anticipated Voucher Program Participation and School Quality?
Evidence from an experimental study
Trains, Planes, and ESAs
As with rail, what began as an effort to regulate and make universal elementary education eventually translated into attempts to block competitors to the government funded model.
Title I Flexibility and Micro ESAs
Instead of continuing with a complex and ineffective maze of Title I regulations, states should have the opportunity to let parents decide how to use Title I dollars.
Education Savings Accounts Are For More Than Just Private School Tuition
In Arizona, families use ESAs to access a variety of learning opportunities for their children.
On Designing K-12 Education Savings Accounts
Education savings accounts operate like the “partial voucher” that Milton Friedman envisioned more than a decade ago.
