Publications: Vouchers

NEPC Review: Apples to Apples: The Definitive Look at School Test Scores in Milwaukee and Wisconsin for 2024 (Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, March 2025)

NEPC Review

Benjamin R. Shear

June 10, 2025

NEPC Review: The Enrollment Decline Windfall (EdChoice, February 2025)

NEPC Review

David E. DeMatthews and Jinseok Shin

May 8, 2025

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NEPC Review: The Persistence of Religious Discrimination in Publicly Funded Pre-K Programs (Manhattan Institute, January 2025)

NEPC Review

Joshua Weishart

May 1, 2025

The Mounting Trouble with Education Savings Accounts

Policy Brief

Samuel E. Abrams

April 17, 2025

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NEPC Review: Thousands Served: Students with Disabilities in Wisconsin’s Parental Choice Programs (School Choice Wisconsin and Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, January 2025)

NEPC Review

Maria M. Lewis and Julie F. Mead

April 8, 2025

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NEPC Review: Fiscal Effects of School Choice: The Costs and Savings of Private School Choice Programs in America Through FY 2022 (EdChoice, October 2024)

NEPC Review

Mark Weber

February 11, 2025

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The Fiscal Impacts of Expanded Voucher Programs and Charter-School Growth on Public Schools: Recommendations for Sustaining Adequate and Equitable School Finance Systems

Policy Brief

David S. Knight and David E. DeMatthews

November 21, 2024

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NEPC Review: Pennsylvania’s Education Tax Credit Scholarships: How EITC Serves Children and Families in the Commonwealth (Commonwealth Foundation, September 2024)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

November 12, 2024

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How Can States Make School Voucher Systems More Accountable, Accessible, and Transparent?

Policy Brief

Joshua Cowen and Ryan D. Nowak

October 3, 2024

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NEPC Review: Helping Families Navigate the Changing Education Landscape (Cato Institute, June 2024)

NEPC Review

Huriya Jabbar

September 10, 2024

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Strengthening Oversight of Education Savings Account (ESA) Funding for Private and At-Home Schooling

Policy Brief

Luis A. Huerta and Trevor Baisden

September 5, 2024

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South Carolina Amicus Brief: Eidson v. South Carolina Department of Education

Resource Document

June 24, 2024

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NEPC Review: The Reality of Switchers (EdChoice, March 2024)

NEPC Review

Joshua Cowen

May 3, 2024

NEPC Review: K-12 School Choice Calculator (Reason Foundation and EdChoice, January 2024)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

March 19, 2024

NEPC Review: The Cost-Effectiveness of Wisconsin’s Private School Choice Programs (School Choice Wisconsin, September 2023)

NEPC Review

Stephen Kotok

December 12, 2023

Talking About Vouchers

FYI

Joshua Cowen

October 13, 2023

NEPC Review: The 123s of School Choice: What the Research Says About Private School Choice Programs in America, 2023 Edition (EdChoice, June 2023)

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski

October 12, 2023

NEPC Review: Qualified Education Expense Tax Credit: Economic Analysis (Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts, June 2023)

NEPC Review

David S. Knight

September 27, 2023

NEPC Review: The Ohio EdChoice Program’s Impact on School District Enrollments, Finances, and Academics (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, December 2022)

NEPC Review

Joshua Cowen

February 21, 2023

NEPC Review: #StudentsFirst: Empowering Parents to Help Students Regain Lost Learning (The Buckeye Institute, September 2022)

NEPC Review

David S. Knight

November 22, 2022

NEPC Review: Michigan Student Opportunity Scholarships: Overview and Fiscal Analysis (Mackinac Center, May 2022)

NEPC Review

Christopher Saldaña

July 14, 2022

The Outsourcing of Discrimination: Another SCOTUS Earthquake?

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner

May 12, 2022

NEPC Review: Fiscal Effects of School Choice: Analyzing the Costs and Savings of Private School Choice Programs in America (EdChoice, November 2021)

NEPC Review

Luis A. Huerta and Steven J. Koutsavlis

March 15, 2022

NEPC Review: Accountability and Private-School Choice (Manhattan Institute, October 2021)

NEPC Review

Jack Schneider

November 16, 2021

NEPC Review: Education Savings Accounts: How ESAs Can Promote Educational Freedom for New York Families (Manhattan Institute, October 2021)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

November 9, 2021

NEPC Review: Florida Versus Kentucky: School Choice Improves Public School Performance, Too (Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, May 2021)

NEPC Review

Samuel E. Abrams and Steven J. Koutsavlis

July 15, 2021

NEPC Review: Education Freedom and Student Achievement: Is More School Choice Associated with Higher State-Level Performance on the NAEP? (University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform, March 2021)

NEPC Review

T. Jameson Brewer and Joel R. Malin

June 16, 2021

Estimating a Price Tag for School Vouchers

Policy Brief

Robert Shand and Henry M. Levin

May 25, 2021

NEPC Review: Religious Charter Schools: Legally Permissible? Constitutionally Required? (Manhattan Institute, December 2020)

NEPC Review

Derek W. Black

January 26, 2021

Reviews Worth Sharing: An Analysis of the Fiscal and Economic Impact of Georgia's Qualified Education Expense (Education Economics Center at Kennesaw State University, November 2020)

Reviews Worth Sharing

Kevin G. Welner

December 8, 2020

NEPC Review: Unleashing Educational Opportunity: The Untapped Potential of Expanded Tax Credit Scholarships in Pennsylvania (Commonwealth Foundation, August 2020)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

October 22, 2020

NEPC Review: Comparing Ed Reforms: Assessing the Experimental Research on Nine K-12 Education Reforms (EdChoice, April 2020)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

May 27, 2020

NEPC Review: Child Safety Accounts: Protecting Our Children Through Parental Freedom (Heartland Institute, November 2019)

NEPC Review

Oscar Jiménez-Castellanos and Gabriella Garriga

March 31, 2020

NEPC Review: Ripple Effect: How Expanding School Choice Programs Can Lead to More College Graduates and a Stronger Economy (Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, January 2020)

NEPC Review

William J. Mathis

March 10, 2020

NEPC Review: The Case for Educational Pluralism in the U.S. (Manhattan Institute, July 2019)

NEPC Review

Joel Westheimer

October 22, 2019

NEPC Review: The Effects of Means-Tested Private School Choice Programs on College Enrollment and Graduation (Urban Institute, July 2019)

NEPC Review

T. Jameson Brewer

October 17, 2019

NEPC Review: The 123s of School Choice: What the Research Says About Private School Choice: 2019 Edition (EdChoice, April 2019)

NEPC Review

T. Jameson Brewer

June 11, 2019

NEPC Review: The Effects of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program on College Enrollment and Graduation: An Update (Urban Institute, February 2019)

NEPC Review

Jaekyung Lee

March 28, 2019

NEPC Review: 12 Myths and Realities about Private Educational Choice Programs (Institute for Justice, August 2017)

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski

March 8, 2019

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Suzanne Eckes and Julie Mead About Privatization and Discrimination

FYI

Gregory A. Smith, Suzanne E. Eckes, and Julie F. Mead

January 22, 2019

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Rick Mintrop and Miguel Órdenes on School Privatization in Chile

FYI

Gregory A. Smith, Rick Mintrop, and Miguel Órdenes

December 18, 2018

How School Privatization Opens the Door for Discrimination

Policy Brief

Julie F. Mead and Suzanne E. Eckes

December 6, 2018

Reviews Worth Sharing: An Impact Analysis of North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship Program on Student Achievement (June 2018)

Reviews Worth Sharing

Kristopher Nordstrom

July 12, 2018

NEPC Review: Is Public Schooling a Public Good? An Analysis of Schooling Externalities (Cato Institute, May 2018)

NEPC Review

Doris A. Santoro

June 26, 2018

What Might Happen If School Vouchers and Privatization of Schools Were to Become Universal in the U.S.: Learning from a National Test Case—Chile

Policy Brief

Ernesto Treviño, Rick Mintrop, Cristóbal Villalobos, and Miguel Órdenes

June 7, 2018

NEPC Review: Do Impacts on Test Scores Even Matter? (American Enterprise Institute, March 2018)

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski and T. Jameson Brewer

May 3, 2018

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Oscar Jimenez-Castellanos on Education Savings Accounts

FYI

Gregory A. Smith and Oscar Jiménez-Castellanos

February 14, 2018

How Voucher Advocates Created a Blue-State Loophole to Trump’s Tax Law

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner

January 24, 2018

The State of Education Savings Account Programs in the United States

Policy Brief

Oscar Jiménez-Castellanos, William J. Mathis, and Kevin G. Welner

January 23, 2018

NEPC Review: Why Indiana Parents Choose: A Cross-Sector Survey of Parents' Views in a Robust School Choice Environment (EdChoice, September 2017)

NEPC Review

Jeanne M. Powers

November 21, 2017

Assessing the Fiscal Impact of Wisconsin's Statewide Voucher Program

Policy Memo

Ellie Bruecker

October 5, 2017

NEPC Review: The Tax-Credit Scholarship Audit: Do Publicly Funded Private School Choice Programs Save Money? (EdChoice, October 2016)

NEPC Review

Luis A. Huerta and Steven J. Koutsavlis

August 24, 2017

NEPC Review: Apples to Apples: The Definitive Look at School Test Scores in Milwaukee and Wisconsin (Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, March 2017)

NEPC Review

Benjamin R. Shear

April 25, 2017

NEPC Review: Squeezing the Public School Districts: The Fiscal Effects of Eliminating the Louisiana Scholarship Program (University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform, August 2016)

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

September 29, 2016

NEPC Review: A Win-Win Solution: The Empirical Evidence on School Choice (Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, May 2016)

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski

June 30, 2016

NEPC Review: The School Choice Voucher: A "Get Out of Jail" Card? (University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform, March 2016)

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

April 6, 2016

NAEPscuses: Making Sense of Excuse-Making from the No-Excuses Contingent

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner

October 28, 2015

State Sen. Alberta Darling's Recovery District Idea is Designed to Fail

Resource Document

Alex Molnar

April 9, 2015

Review of The Texas Economy and School Choice

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski and Ee-Seul Yoon

February 17, 2015

Review of Federal School Finance Reform

NEPC Review

Gail L. Sunderman

November 6, 2014

NEPC Review: Pluck & Tenacity: How Five Private Schools in Ohio Have Adapted to Vouchers (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, January 2014)

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski and T. Jameson Brewer

March 6, 2014

Much Ado about Politics (and Much Ignored about Research Evidence)

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner

November 6, 2013

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - 2013 Collection

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis

June 13, 2013

Review of Report Card on American Education

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski and T. Jameson Brewer

May 9, 2013

NEPC Review: The Way of the Future: Education Savings Accounts for Every American Family (September 2012)

NEPC Review

Charisse Gulosino and Jonah Liebert

October 23, 2012

NEPC Review: The Effects of School Vouchers on College Enrollment: Experimental Evidence from New York City (August 2012)

NEPC Review

Sara Goldrick-Rab

September 13, 2012

Review of Three Reports from the Comprehensive Longitudinal Evaluation of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program

NEPC Review

Casey Cobb

April 19, 2012

Study's Results Are Flawed and Inconsequential

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner and Alex Molnar

March 3, 2012

How Many Decades Before 'Reform' Becomes 'Status Quo'?

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

December 1, 2011

NEPC Review: The Comprehensive Longitudinal Evaluation of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program: Summary of Fourth Year Reports (March 2011)

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

June 2, 2011

How to Calculate the Costs or Savings of Tax Credit Voucher Policies

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner

March 17, 2011

NEPC Review: How School Choice Can Create Jobs for South Carolina (December 2009)

NEPC Review

Joydeep Roy

January 14, 2010

The Neovoucher: A Kissing Cousin in Disguise

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

June 1, 2009

NEPC Review: The MPCP Longitudinal Educational Growth Study Second Year Report (March 2009)

NEPC Review

Casey Cobb

May 28, 2009

NEPC Review: Evaluation of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program: Impacts After Three Years (March 2009)

NEPC Review

Martin Carnoy

May 20, 2009

NEPC Review: The Effect of Milwaukee’s Parental Choice Program on Student Achievement in Milwaukee Public Schools (March 2009)

NEPC Review

Gregory Camilli

May 18, 2009

NEPC Review: The Fiscal Impact of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program: 2009 Update (April 2009)

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

April 29, 2009

NEPC Review: A Win-Win Solution: The Empirical Evidence on How Vouchers Affect Public Schools (February 2009)

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski

April 27, 2009

NEPC Review: When Private Schools Take Public Dollars: What’s the Place of Accountability in School Voucher Programs? (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, March 2009)

NEPC Review

Ernest R. House

April 15, 2009

NEPC Review: Reports on 10 state public opinion surveys on K-12 school choice (October 2008)

NEPC Review

Jon Lorence and Anthony Gary Dworkin

December 2, 2008

NEPC Review: Promising Start: An Empirical Analysis of How EdChoice Vouchers Affect Ohio Public Schools (August 2008)

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski

September 8, 2008

Under the Voucher Radar

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

September 3, 2008

NEPC Review: The Effect of Special Education Vouchers on Public School Achievement: Evidence from Florida's McKay Scholarship Program (Manhattan Institute, April 2008)

NEPC Review

John T. Yun

May 22, 2008

NEPC Review: Choice and Education across the States (April 2008)

NEPC Review

Wendy C. Chi

April 29, 2008

The Competitive Effect of School Choice Policies on Performance in Traditional Public Schools

Policy Brief

David Arsen and Yongmei Ni

March 1, 2008

NEPC Review: Feeling the Florida Heat? How Low-Performing Schools Respond to Voucher and Accountability Pressure (Urban Institute, November 2007)

NEPC Review

Damian W. Betebenner

January 15, 2008

Who Chooses Schools, and Why?

Policy Brief

Natalie Lacireno-Paquet and Charleen Brantley

January 7, 2008

NEPC Review: The ABC's of School Choice (September 2007)

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski

September 24, 2007

NEPC Review: Segregation Levels in Cleveland Public Schools and the Cleveland Voucher Program (August 2006)

NEPC Review

Gary W. Ritter

October 5, 2006

NEPC Review: Spreading Freedom and Saving Money: The Fiscal Impact of the D.C. Voucher Program (January 2006)

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski

February 20, 2006

Inside School Choice: Fifteen Years of Vouchers

Resource Document

June 12, 2005

An Assessment of Colorado's Charter Schools: Implications for Policy

Policy Brief

Kenneth R. Howe and Samara S. Foster

January 1, 2005

Deliberative Democratic Evaluation: Successes and Limitations of an Evaluation of School Choice

Resource Document

Kenneth R. Howe

January 1, 2005

On School Choice and Test-Based Accountability

Resource Document

Damian W. Betebenner, Kenneth R. Howe, and Samara S. Foster

January 1, 2005

Florida's Voucher Programs

Resource Document

January 1, 2004

Reform Florida

Policy Brief

Alex Molnar, Douglas N. Harris, Lisa Abrams, Madhabi Chatterji, Mary Lee Smith, Sherman Dorn, Tim Hacsi, and Victoria-Maria MacDonald

January 1, 2004

Funding a Movement

Resource Document

November 21, 2003

Voucher Bargain May Cost Taxpayers

Resource Document

September 20, 2003

An Analysis of Colorado's School Voucher Proposals

Policy Brief

Kenneth R. Howe and Kevin G. Welner

January 1, 2003

An Examination of Colorado's Tuition Tax Credit Proposal

Policy Brief

Kevin G. Welner

January 1, 2003

Not Just Poor Kids Receiving Vouchers, Higher-Income Students Are Also Reaping Benefits of Program, Data Show

Resource Document

February 16, 2002

School Choice and the Pressure to Perform: Déjà Vu for Children with Disabilities?

Resource Document

Kenneth R. Howe and Kevin G. Welner

January 1, 2002

Vouchers a Costly Path to a Divisive Education

Legacy Publication

David C. Berliner

January 1, 2002

School Vouchers

Policy Brief

Gerald W. Bracey and Michael W. Apple

January 1, 2001

Vouchers: No Solution to Educating the Poor

Legacy Publication

Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, Walter C. Farrell, Jr., Luis A. Huerta, and David C. Berliner

January 1, 2001

School Choice Crucible: A Case Study of Boulder Valley

Resource Document

Damian W. Betebenner, Margaret Eisenhart, and Kenneth R. Howe

January 1, 2001

School Vouchers: The Law, the Research, and the Public Policy Implications

Policy Brief

Alex Molnar

January 1, 2001

Proposition 38 Makes Promises It Cannot Keep

Policy Brief

Luis A. Huerta

January 1, 2000

A Costly Gamble or Serious Reform? California's School Voucher Initiative - Proposition 38

Resource Document

Luis A. Huerta, David Ruenzel, and Bruce Fuller

January 1, 2000

A Study of Boulder Valley School District's Open Enrollment Program

Resource Document

Kenneth R. Howe

January 1, 2000

Will Vouchers Work for Low-Income Students?

Legacy Publication

Luis A. Huerta, Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, David C. Berliner, and Walter C. Farrell, Jr.

January 1, 2000

Voucher and Class-Size Research

Legacy Publication

Alex Molnar and Charles M. Achilles

January 1, 2000

Taxing the Establishment Clause: The Revolutionary Decision of the Arizona Supreme Court in Kotterman v. Killian

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

January 1, 2000

The Arizona Education Tax Credit and Hidden Considerations of Justice

Resource Document

Michele S. Moses

January 1, 2000

Educational Vouchers: A Review of the Research

Policy Brief

Alex Molnar

January 1, 1999

Student Achievement Smaller Classes and Educational Vouchers: A Research Update

Legacy Publication

Alex Molnar

January 1, 1999

Unfinished Business in Milwaukee

Legacy Publication

Alex Molnar

January 1, 1999

Poverty Issues Get Short Shrift in Today's Education Debate

Legacy Publication

Gerald W. Bracey

January 1, 1999

Smaller Classes–Not Vouchers–Increase Student Achievement

Legacy Publication

Alex Molnar

January 1, 1998

The Real Lessons of Milwaukee's Voucher Experiment

Legacy Publication

Alex Molnar

August 6, 1997