In this paper we analyze the relationship between charter school authorizers and student achievement. We perform this analysis using a 10-year panel dataset from Minnesota, a state that permits four distinct types of authorizers—local school boards, postsecondary institutions, nonprofit...

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...