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CIAO DATE: 07/05
Without Competition, School Choice Is Not Enough
On the Issue
May 2004
Frederick M. Hess
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract
Most current school-choice programs do not establish serious competition among schools. Therefore, they fail to bring about the systemic changes advocates expect. Real competition entails accountability and negative consequences for under-performers. In contrast, tentative choice programs that enable limited numbers of students to depart from government-run schools while maintaining the resources allocated to those schools represent stumbling blocks to reform.
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