When Parents Choose, Do Tax-Payers lose?
Steven GlazermanMany education reforms promise to give parents more power over the assignment of their children to schools. This can have important consequences for the sorting of students, the nature and quality of educational outcomes, and the overall satisfaction of families. This paper explains how parents’ use of that power can both help and hurt the cause of public education. The paper considers four broad classes of policiesmandatory assignment, controlled school choice, vouchers, and charter schoolsthat resolve in unique ways the tension that arises between what parents want and what communities that fund public education want. The author argues that the effect of these policies depends largely on the empirical question of what determines families’ school preferences. The answer must come not from questionnaires but from observing the actual choices parents make when forced to decide what kind of school and what kind of classmates they want for their children.Published: Chicago
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