School Choice Project
School choice is widespread in America — unless you are poor. Affluent families have choice because they can move to different neighborhoods or communities, send their children to private schools, or supplement schooling with tutors and enrichment programs. Lower-income and working-class families, meanwhile, too often are trapped with one option — a school in need of improvement.
The School Choice Project works to increase educational options for all kids. Public charter schools (including online charter schools), private schools and home school are options that increase families’ opportunities to find the right fit for their children. These options are frequently under attack by those who represent the status quo. Cascade offers original research and practical arguments to legislators, citizens and the media to promote policies to enhance quality, freedom and innovation in Oregon’s schools.
The Oregon Education Tax Credit Coalition is one venture of the School Choice Project. It is a coalition of Oregonians who support education tax credits and tax credit funded scholarship programs that would help all families access the schools that best fit their kids. You can learn more at www.OREDTaxCredit.com.
Check out our latest work to get the facts on school choice
Cascade’s School Choice Beginnings
Three Strikes and You’re Out: Replacing Top-Down Education Control with School Choice
Christina Martin discusses Control Cometh Before the Fall of Education
Control Cometh Before the Fall of Education
For more school choice publications from the Cascade Policy Institute, click here.
New State Law Gives More Oregon Families Opportunity for Virtual Schooling
One online school gives a briefing on how a new school choice law, passed last year, has affected its program and allowed more Oregon students to choose online learning for their educational path.
