The limitations of parental accountability -- Parental choice, parental power, and accountability -- The response of public schools to competition -- What parents know : an examination of informed consumers -- Shopping for schools -- Do the dollars follow the child? -- Choice school accountability : a consensus of views -- Releasing the power of school choice through accountability
Summary
This account refocuses the debate about school choice programmes in America, with a non-partisan assessment of the nation's largest and longest-running private school voucher programme - the high-profile Milwaukee experiment - and finds that the system undercuts the promise of school choice
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-215) and index