School Choice and the Question of Accountability: The Milwaukee Experience
Emily Van Dunk and Anneliese M. Dickman
Abstract
This book refocuses the debate about school choice programs in America, with a non-partisan assessment of the nation's largest and longest-running private school voucher program—the high-profile Milwaukee experiment—and finds that the system undercuts the promise of school choice. The book argues that the Milwaukee experiment has not resulted in the one element necessary for school choice to be effective: an accountability system in which good schools thrive and poor schools close. It shows that most ingredients of a robust market are missing. Well-informed consumers (parents) are not the norm ... More
Keywords: private school, voucher program, Milwaukee experiment, school choice, parents, fiscal incentives, voucher system
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2003 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300099423 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: October 2013 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300099423.001.0001 |
