Several recent education reform measures, including the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), couple school choice …-performing schools. We use the introduction of NCLB in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District to determine if the choice component had … their current NCLB school. We then use the lottery assignment of students to chosen schools to test if changed choices led …

, implying that school choice plans may have the smallest impact on the choices of the families they are targeting. This paper …-Mecklenburg Public School District (CMS) and a field experiment we designed and implemented as part of the district's 2006 school choice … plan to examine how transparent information on school-level academic performance affects the test scores of the schools …