An Empirical Evaluation of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program. School Choice Issues in the State

Autor/inn/en	Forster, Greg; D'Andrea, Christian
Institution	Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice
Titel	An Empirical Evaluation of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program. School Choice Issues in the State
Quelle	(2009), (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Quantitative Daten; Public Schools; Private Schools; Elementary Secondary Education; Tax Credits; School Choice; Telephone Surveys; Scholarship Funds; Educational Finance; Comparative Analysis; Parent Attitudes; Participant Satisfaction; Program Evaluation; Delivery Systems; Program Effectiveness; Florida + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Private school; Privatschule; Steuerermäßigung; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Telephone interview; Telefoninterview; Bundesausbildungsförderungsgesetz; Bildungsfonds; Elternverhalten; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Auslieferung
Abstract	This study examines the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship program, one of the nation's largest school choice programs. It is the first ever completed empirical evaluation of a tax-credit scholarship program, a type of program that creates school choice through the tax code. Earlier reports, including a recent one on the Florida program, have not drawn comparisons between the educational results of public schools and tax-credit scholarships; this study is therefore the first step in evaluating the performance of this type of school choice. The Florida program provides a tax credit on corporate income taxes for donations to scholarship-funding organizations, which use the funding to provide K-12 private school scholarships to low-income students. Over 23,000 Florida students are attending private schools this year using these scholarships. Similar programs exist in Arizona, Georgia, Iowa, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. Studying a tax-credit scholarship program using traditional empirical techniques presents a number of methodological challenges. To overcome these difficulties, the study used a telephone survey conducted by Marketing Informatics to interview 808 participating parents whose children attended public schools before entering the program. It asked them to compare the educational services they received in public and private schools. The results provide the first ever direct comparison between the education participants received when they were in Florida public schools and the education they receive in the school choice program. (Contains 7 figures and 4 endnotes.) (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice. Available from: Foundation for Educational Choice. One American Square Suite 2420, Indianapolis, IN 46282. Tel: 317-681-0745; Fax: 317-681-0945; e-mail: info@edchoice.org; Web site: http://www.edchoice.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10