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32 Ibid., p. 20.
33 Ibid., p. 19.
34 George M. Holmes, Jeff Desimone, and Nicholas G. Rupp, “Friendly Competition: Does the Presence of Charters Spur Public Schools to Improve?” Education Next, Winter 2006, http://www.educationnext.org.
35 Ibid., p. 69.
36 Paul Teske, Mark Schneider, Jack Buckley, and Sara Clark, “Does Charter School Competition Improve Traditional Public Schools?” Manhattan Institute Center for Civic Innovation Civic Report no. 10, June 2000, p. 1.
37 Vanourek, p. 39.
38 Ibid., p. 38.
39 Ibid., p. 39.
40 Duncan McCully and Patricia J. Malin, “What Parents Think of New York’s Charter Schools,” Manhattan Institute Center for Civic Innovation Civic Report no. 37, June 2003.
41 Lewis C. Solmon, Kern Paark, and David Garcia, “Does Charter School Attendance Improve Test Scores? The Arizona Results,” Goldwater Institute, 2003, p. 10. See also Lewis C. Solmon, “Findings from the 2002 Survey of Parents with Children in Arizona Charter Schools: How Parents Grade Their Charter Schools,” Human Resources Policy Corporation, March 10, 2003.
42 Solomon, Paark, and Garcia, Table 6, p. 13.
43 “State Notes on Charter Schools from the Education Commission of the States,” April 2003, cited in Theodore R. Sizer, “Don’t Tie Us Down,” Education Next, Summer 2005, p. 61.
44 Herbert J. Walberg, “Improving Educational Productivity: An Assessment of Extant Research,” in The Scientific Basis of Educational Productivity, ed. Rena F. Subotnik and Herbert J. Walberg (Greenwich, CT: Information Age, 2006), pp. 103-60.
45 Vanourek, p. 30.
46 Chester E. Finn, Bryan C. Hassel, and Sheree Speakman, Charter School Funding: Inequity’s Next Frontier (Washington: Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, 2005).
47 Cited in ibid., executive summary, p. viii.
Chapter 3
1 John C. Goodman and Matt Moore, “School Choice v. School Choice,” National Center for Policy Analysis Policy Backgrounder no. 155, April 27, 2001, p. 6, http://www.ncpa.org/pub/bg/bg155/.
2 Paul E. Peterson, Jay P. Greene, William G. Howell, and William McCready, “Initial Findings from an Evaluation of School Choice Programs in Washington, D.C., and Dayton, Ohio,” Harvard University Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Paper, 1998; and Paul E. Peterson, David Myers, and William G. Howell, “An Evaluation of the New York City School Choice Scholarships Program: The First Year,” Harvard University Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Paper, 1998.
3 David Myers, Paul E. Peterson, David Mayer, Julia Chou, and William G. Howell, “School Choice in New York City after Two Years: An Evaluation of the School Choice Scholarships Program,” Harvard University Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Paper, 2000, available from Mathematica Policy Research, http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/.
4 Daniel P. Mayer, Paul E. Peterson, David E. Myers, Christina Clark Tuttle, and William G. Howell, “School Choice in New York City after Three Years: An Evaluation of the School Choice Scholarships Program Final Report,” Mathematica Policy Research Report no. 8404-045, February 19, 2002.
5 Jay P. Greene, “Vouchers in Charlotte,” Education Matters 1, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 55-60.
6 Jay P. Greene, Paul E. Peterson, and Jiangtao Du, “School Choice in Milwaukee: A Randomized Experiment,” in Learning from School Choice, ed. Paul E. Peterson and Bryan C. Hassel (Washington: Brookings Institution, 1998), pp. 335-56.
7 Cecilia Rouse, “Private School Vouchers and Student Achievement: An Evaluation of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 113, no. 2 (May 1998): 593.
8 Kim K. Metcalf, “Evaluation of the Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Program, 1996-1999,” Indiana University, 1999, p. 20.
9 Paul E. Peterson, William G. Howell, and Jay P. Greene, “An Evaluation of the Cleveland Voucher Program after Two Years,” Harvard University Program on Education Policy and Governance, 1999. See also http://www.spa.ucla.edu/ps/pdf/S00/PS294/peterson-howell-greene(1999).pdf.