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Publications -- Education

Jul 09, 2003	BA #446 – NCPA's Value-Added Report Card on Texas Schools: A Model for Meaningful Assessments The No Child Left Behind Act, the new school accountability measure that became law in 2001, requires that all states develop and administer standards-based tests to students in grades 3 through 8 and report results by student subpopulation (race/ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status and disability) for districts and campuses.
Mar 12, 2003	BA #432 – Is There a Child Care Crisis? Access to safe and affordable child care has been a major issue in the congressional debate on reauthorization of the 1996 welfare reform law.
Jul 17, 2002	BA #405 – School Choice after Cleveland The U.S. Supreme Court's 5-to-4 decision in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris affirmed the constitutionality of the publicly funded school voucher program in Cleveland, Ohio.
Jun 25, 2002	BA #403 – Texas Charter Schools: Do They Measure Up? Charter schools are independent public schools that are freed from many of the bureaucratic rules and regulations preventing innovation and flexibility in traditional public schools.
Jun 17, 2002	BA #399 – Giving Patients More Control Eighty-eight percent of Americans with private health insurance coverage get it through employers, and the employment-based health insurance system has served millions of Americans for more than 50 years.
Dec 18, 2001	BA #383 – Cleveland, School Choice and the Constitution Since 1996, the Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Program has provided tax-funded vouchers that allow children from low-income families to opt out of the city's failing public schools. Teachers' unions and the education establishment have challenged the program in court, arguing that it violates the First Amendment because many voucher students attend religious schools. In 2002, the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on the Cleveland case, a decision that is expected to clarify whether it is constitutional for children to use tax-funded vouchers to attend religious schools.
Dec 12, 2001	BA #384 – Tuition Tax Credits: A Model for School Choice Parents seeking educational opportunities for their children are now finding more options available to them. Inspired largely by the success of Arizona's Tuition Tax Credit Program, a number of states are establishing tax credits to support scholarships that families may use to send their children to both public and private schools.
Apr 27, 2001	BG #155 – School Choice vs. School Choice Contrary to a widespread impression, America already has an extensive system of school choice. Yet the system is both inefficient and unfair. It discriminates against low-income families and racial minorities.
Jan 31, 2001	ST #240 – Social Security and Education This paper considers Social Security as an investment for different classes of workers based on their level of education. Why education, rather than income? Everyone's income will vary a lot over the course of a 40- to 45-year work life. As a result, level of education is a better predictor of expected Social Security taxes and benefits than current wages.
Aug 07, 2000	BG #153 – School Choice In The Courts The need for alternatives to traditional public schools is clear. The alternatives must be able to withstand challenges to their constitutionality.
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