The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice
Notes
1. Jeff Spalding, “School Choice: It’s Easy as 1, 2, 3, but Not for IDOE,”
EdChoice blog, June 30, 2014, http://www.edchoice.org/blog/school-
choice-its-easy-as-1-2-3-but-not-for-idoe.
2. Thomas D. Snyder, Cristobal de Brey, and Sally A. Dillow, Digest of
Education Statistics 2014, NCES 2016-006 (Washington, DC: US Dept. of
Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2016), p. 134, table
206.50, http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2016/2016006.pdf.
3. Chelsea Schneider, “New Report Shows Indiana Remains National
Leader on School Vouchers,” Indianapolis Star, Apr. 14, 2016, http://
www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2016/04/14/new-report-
shows-indiana-remains-national-leader-school-vouchers/83039918.
4. The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, The ABCs of
School Choice: The Comprehensive Guide to Every Private School Choice
Program in America, 2016 ed. (Indianapolis: Friedman Foundation for
Educational Choice, 2016), p. 5, http://www.edchoice.org/wp-content/
uploads/2016/02/2016-ABCs-WEB-2.pdf.
5. Ibid., pp. 41–42.
6. “School Choice in America,” Friedman Foundation for Educational
Choice, last modified May 9, 2016, http://www.edchoice.org/school-
choice/school-choice-in-america.
7. Author’s calculation; US Census Bureau, Public Education Finances:
2013, G13-ASPEF (Washington, DC: US Census Bureau, 2015), p. 8, table
8, http://www2.census.gov/govs/school/13f33pub.pdf.
8. Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, The ABCs of School
Choice, p. 130.
9. Ibid., pp. 39–40.
10. See note 7 above.
11. See note 4 above.
12. See note 9 above.
13. Paul DiPerna, Why Indiana Voucher Parents Choose Private Schools
(Indianapolis: Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, 2014),
http://www.edchoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Indiana-
Survey.pdf.
14. See Greg Forster, A Win-Win Solution: The Empirical Evidence on School
Choice, 4th ed. (Indianapolis: Friedman Foundation for Educational
Choice, 2016), p. 2, table 1, http://www.edchoice.org/wp-content/
uploads/2016/05/A-Win-Win-Solution-The-Empirical-Evidence-on-
School-Choice.pdf; M. Danish Shakeel, Kaitlin P. Anderson, and Patrick
J. Wolf, The Participant Effects of Private School Vouchers across the Globe:
A Meta-Analytic and Systematic Review, EDRE Working Paper 2016-07
(Fayetteville: Univ. of Ark., Dept. of Education Reform, 2016), http://
www.uaedreform.org/downloads/2016/05/the-participant-effects-
of-private-school-vouchers-across-the-globe-a-meta-analytic-and-
systematic-review-2.pdf.
15. David C. Berliner and Bruce J. Biddle, The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud,
and the Attack on America’s Public Schools (New York: Harper Collins, 1995).
16. Brian Kisida and Patrick J. Wolf, “School Governance and Information:
Does Choice Lead to Better-Informed Parents?” American Politics Research
38, no. 5 (2010), pp. 783-805, doi:10.1177/1532673X09350981.
17. Mark Schneider, Paul Teske, and Melissa Marschall, Choosing Schools:
Consumer Choice and the Quality of American Schools (Princeton, NJ:
Princeton Univ. Press, 2000).
18. Patrick J. Wolf, Babette Gutmann, Michael Puma, Brian Kisida, Lou
Rizzo, Nada Eissa, and Matthew Carr, Evaluation of the DC Opportunity
Scholarship Program: Final Report, NCEE 2010-4018 (Washington, DC:
US Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Evaluation and
Regional Assistance, 2010), http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/pubs/20104018/
pdf/20104018.pdf.
19. William G. Howell and Paul E. Peterson, The Education Gap: Vouchers
and Urban Schools (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2002), p. 170.
20. Kim K. Metcalf, Evaluation of the Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring
Grant Program: 1996-1999 (Bloomington: Ind. Univ., Ind. Center for
Evaluation, 2001), http://cdm16007.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/
collection/p267401ccp2/id/1948.
21. John F. Witte, The Market Approach to Education: An Analysis of America’s
First Voucher Program (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2001), pp. 67-
68, http://press.princeton.edu/titles/6751.html.
22. Witte, The Market Approach to Education.
23. Wolf et al., Evaluation of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program, p. xxi.
24. Brian Kisida and Patrick J. Wolf, “Customer Satisfaction and
Educational Outcomes: Experimental Impacts of the Market-Based
Delivery of Public Education,” International Public Management 18, no. 2
(2015), p. 280, doi:10.1080/10967494.2014.996629.
25. Paul E. Peterson, “School Choice: A Report Card,” in Learning
from School Choice, ed. Peterson and Bryan C. Hassel (Washington,
DC: Brookings Institution, 1998), p. 18, http://www.brookings.edu/
research/books/1998/schchoic.
26. Reg Baker, J. Michael Brick, Nancy A. Bates, Micke Battaglia,
Mick P. Couper, Jill A. Dever, Krista J. Gile, and Roger Tourangeau,
Report of the AAPOR Task Force on Non-Probability Sampling (Oakbrook
Terrace, IL: American Association for Public Opinion Research),
p. 20, https://www.aapor.org/AAPOR_Main/media/MainSiteFiles
/NPS_TF_Report_Final_7_revised_FNL_6_22_13.pdf.
27. The Friedman Foundation incentivized parents to complete the
survey by entering them into a randomized drawing to win one of five
$200 gift cards or one of 10 $100 gift cards.
28. See note 13 above.
29. We also asked parents at the end of the survey how many children
they had in each of the following categories: participating in both the
voucher and tax-credit scholarship program, participating only in
the voucher program, participating only in the tax-credit scholarship
program, attending private school but not participating in either
program, attending a public district (neighborhood) school, attending a
public charter school, and attending homeschool. The results from this
question will most likely be used in future analyses.
30. Authors’ calculations; Stephen P. Broughman and Nancy L. Swaim,
Characteristics of Private Schools in the United States: Results From the 2011-
12 Private School Universe Survey, NCES 2013-316 (Washington, DC: US
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