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School Choice

Articles, insights and analysis on School Choice from EdCircuit.

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School choice is the range of options families have beyond their assigned public school: public charter schools, magnet schools, private and religious schools, Montessori programs, online schools and homeschooling. Some states also help families pay for those options through vouchers, tax-credit scholarships and education savings accounts, and the rules differ widely from state to state.

edCircuit's coverage is written for the parents weighing those options and for the district and school leaders whose enrollment and funding they affect. It explains how the charter school movement grew and how charters operate, why families choose homeschooling and how technology is fueling its growth, how school choice funding is changing, and what the debate means for traditional public schools. Homeschooling has its own section, Homeschooling.

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