This article considers the impact of a high-stakes testing and reporting requirement on students using publicly funded vouchers to attend private schools. We describe how such a policy was implemented during the course of a previously authorized multi-year evaluation of the Milwaukee Parental...

Part I: Introduction and Historical Overview. Chapter 1: The Union Debate -- Chapter 2: Union History -- Part II: Unions in the Charter Sector. Chapter 3: Teacher-Led Unionization in the Charter Sector -- Chapter 4: The Unionized Charter Contract -- Chapter 5: Top-Down Unionization in the...

Introduction -- Tax reform in theory and practice -- A brief thematic history of the income tax -- Tax expenditures (loopholes) -- Tax expenditures and economic behavior -- Tax expenditures for human resources and income support -- Tax expenditures for intergovernmental transactions -- And...

Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson led a Midwestern policy revolution in the late 1980s and early 1990s centered on providing parents with more school choices. Since those early years, school choice in the forms of private school vouchers, public charter schools, and public school open enrollment...

We examine what factors predict why some parents enroll their children in voucher schools while other parents with similar types of children and from similar neighborhoods do not. Furthermore, we investigate how aware parents are of their educational options, where they get their information,...