Taking Stock of PRIVATE-SCHOOL CHOICE

In the past few years, new statewide voucher programs in Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio and the steady growth of a tax-credit funded scholarship program in Florida have offered a glimpse of what expansive private-school choice might look like. What have we learned about the students and schools who choose to participate in statewide private-school choice programs and the academic results for participants? How do these programs work in practice? And what does research tell us about how states should design and oversee voucher programs—if indeed they should do so at all?