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This book looks into the question as to whether private schools always provide a better education than public schools. Inner-city private schools suffer from the same problems neighboring public schools have including large class sizes, unqualified teachers, outdated curricula, lack of parental involvement and stressful family and community circumstances. The book concludes there is not much of a difference.

Reign of Terror : the hoax of the privatization movement and the danger to America's public schools
This book is probably one of the most anti-privatization writings out there. The author warns us of the misguided assumptions from big monied interests about the causes of inequality of public versus private students and their test scores. When these private schools cherry-pick their students, which many times do not come from inner city areas, how can equality exists. Don’t listen to all the data out there.

America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth Reform Beyond Electoral Politics
This book highlights the issue that although we appear to be a youth-obsessed culture, the grim reality of how our educational, social, and economic institutions continually fail young people is highly evident. Their systemic failure is the result of what the author identifies as “four fundamentalisms”: market deregulation, patriotic and religious fervor, the instrumentalization of education, and the militarization of society.

Privatizing educational choice: consequences for parents, schools, and public policy
This book not only discusses the decisions that families must make about public versus private schooling for their children, based on the data that is out there, but tries to show how other factors - most notably the family - have a strong effect on a child's educational success.

Public or Private Education? Lessons from History
This book is an historical collection of essays, edited by the author historian examining past, present and future relationships between the private and public trends of education and knowledge. Although this book does not come to a conclusion or proof of favoring one side or the other, it mostly stirs our thought processes to consider the pros and cons of both sides to stir up debate

]]> 2017-10-09 22:29:58 UTC https://padlet.com/starrick2112/nqegukbva2lw/wish/195398493 The Political Boundaries of School Choice and Privatization in Ohio. We analyze the votes taken in the Ohio State Legislature pertaining to the establishment of six school voucher programs: The Ohio Scholarship and Tutoring Program, The Autism Scholarship, The Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarship, The Educational Choice Pilot Scholarship, The Educational Choice Scholarship, and the Income-based Scholarship Program. We attempt to estimate a legislative voting model on the passage of school voucher programs through the Ohio state legislature. As predicted, the legislator was more likely to vote in favor of a voucher proposal if the district had greater household income and he/she was a Republican. Democratic legislators, who generally represent more minority districts and poorer households, were much more likely than Republican legislators to vote against the voucher programs. In light of clear attempts to limit plaintiff access to the courts, public school advocates should consider a political approach to gaining a more favorable method for funding its public schools. Conclusion Politics remains a central factor in Education Policy, especially in the aftermath of redistricting and a more polarized electorate in the past 25 years. We attempted to add to the dearth of literature by analyzing five votes taken on school voucher proposals by Ohio legislators from 1995 to 2013. The first vote in 1995 on the Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Program resulted in a party line vote for Republican lawmakers while 42 democrats crossed over and voted in favor of the voucher program; while the vote on the Autism Scholarship in 2003 yielded no cross-over votes. The roll-call vote for the Jon Peterson Scholarship in 2011 yielded one crossover vote whereby a Republican Senator representing district 29 voted against the program. Voting on the Educational Choice Scholarship Program in 2005 resulted in five cross-over votes whereby one Republican lawmaker voted against the program, and nine Democratic lawmakers voted in favor this program. More recently in 2013, three Democratic lawmakers and one Republican voted against the party-line concerning the Income-based Scholarship Program. The first vote in 1995 could also be considered a different type of vote since the scale of the program was much smaller than the others as it was within a city and not the entire state. It was a pilot. The concept was essentially at an experimental state. Two decades later we have more data to exam the effects of the voucher programs and the unintended consequences. Furthermore, it is unrealistic to assume that all legislators have a firm grasp on education funding and the benefits and consequences of reform efforts. This is where idealism and reality can have compounding problems. For example, vouchers do offer choice but is it a fiscally conservative model? Is this the most efficient use of taxpayer monies? A troubling limitation of this study and on a general policy making level was that the majority of voucher legislation was embedded within budget bills. It is challenging as researchers and taxpayers to determine where legislators stand on the voucher reform efforts as there is little legislation directly identifying school vouchers without being entangled with other policy decisions. The only stand-alone voucher legislation was the Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Program, which resulted in the largest number of crossover votes. The rest of the voucher legislation was embedded within budget bills making political support by party lines difficult to determine. Because legislators voted on a package and not stand-alone voucher legislation, results must be interpreted with caution and used as initial exploration into this phenomenon. Further research is needed. The authors also believe legislation without entanglement would also be best practice for a more transparent governmental process. Scholars have attempted to explain how education driven and shaped by political interest results in public schools incapable of demonstrating improved and sustained learning for the children they serve. In addition, they embraced the emancipation of public schools from political influence by establishing a choice system placing power in the hands of parents who would incentivize schools to improve student outcomes (Chubb & Moe, 1997). Suburban communities have a history of fighting back against education reforms that threaten their existence and quality of life. Efforts to integrate public schools were stymied by Presidential politics in 1972 and Milliken v. Bradley (1974) because it would impact suburban learning communities. This same phenomena disturbed school finance reform in San Antonio v. Rodriguez (1973) as it threatened Texas suburb’s interest similarly; all in the name of local control symbolizing and reserving the ability of suburban schools to retain enrollment in their schools for their neighborhood children. Geographic constraints [urban/suburban] impact other reforms like school choice, charter schools, and voucher programs as legislation for these reforms, more times than not, limits enrollment to children residing in the communities where the charter schools are located (Ohio Revised Code § 3314.02 (C)(1). The results of this analysis implies that, at least in Ohio, the suburbs remain immune and shielded from the application of significant public school reforms and large urban areas remain laboratories for experimentation and private sector business opportunities. starrick2112 https://padlet.com/starrick2112/nqegukbva2lw/wish/195409570 2017-10-10 00:17:15 UTC https://padlet.com/starrick2112/nqegukbva2lw/wish/195409570