School Choice Project
Begun in the fall of 2005, the School Choice Project focuses on expanding public education options for parents and students, including allowing them to choose their own school.
Cascade’s focus now is on building a coalition to support an education tax credit that would help low-income and disabled students access better school options. You can learn more at www.OREDTaxCredit.com.
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, are typically trapped with one option — a school in need of improvement.
The School Choice Project is committed to expanding the educational options available to all Oregon families.
Featured videos:
- Dr. Howard Fuller Demands School Choice for Black Parents in North Portland
May 23, 2006 - Finalists from Cascade’s school choice video contest
- Video Contest website
Featured articles:
- Education Tax Credits Can Save Oregon Money
Christina Martin, Cascade Policy Institute
March 24, 2009 - Nearly Nine of Ten Oregonians Would Opt Out of Regular Public Schools
Steve Buckstein, Cascade Policy Institute
January 5, 2009 - “School Choice Bill Gets Hearing in Oregon House”
Matt Wingard, School Reform News
June 2007 - Education spending decisions shouldn’t be made without facts
Marsha Michaelis, Evergreen Freedom Foundation
August 29, 2006 - Leaving Most Children Behind: Thirty Years of Education Reform at Jefferson
Matt Evans, Cascade Policy Institute
April 2006 - Stop the train
Jay P. Greene, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
April 4, 2006 - Public Schools Deny Low-Income Children Tutoring
Dan Lips, The Heritage Foundation
February 24, 2006 - An Empirical Analysis of ‘Acting White’
Roland G. Fryer, Jr. & Paul Torelli, National Bureau of Economic Research
May 2005
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