AEI’s latest entry in its Outlook series examines DC’s school choice scene and finds that, while 70 percent of DC students chose a school other than their zoned school, less than a third chose a higher-performing school. As the title of the report says, DC parents have choice without options.
In 2008, ES examined NCLB’s school choice provision and found similar results in Chicago. We also looked at the potential for interdistrict choice to offer parents more high-quality school options and found that, for students in urban areas, policy needs to focus as much on creating more good schools as it does on expanding choice among schools.
For more on building a high quality school choice market, see one of our other reports here.
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You’ve hit on the limits of choice. Despite the claims of “Waiting for Superman” choice is not going to become more than a niche in terms of solving the tough questions. In my world, the choice market topped out long ago, and I bet what I see is far more representative throughout the country. Choice helps some while leaving worse concentration of the toughest challenges, and Rhee didn’t get to first base in addressing them.
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