Paula Arce-Trigatti

Nov 7, 2023 | educationnext.org | Paul Peterson |Paula Arce-Trigatti |Jay Greene |Douglas N. Harris

For more than a century, children in the United States have been enrolled in public schools based on where they live, and pressure to improve public education has been mainly channeled through school board elections, inter-district housing decisions, and test-based accountability. Over the past 30 years, however, charter schools, vouchers, and public-school choice programs have challenged this model.