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No Choices Left Behind: Competitive Models to Restructure California's Lowest-Performing Schools
December 2006
By Lisa Snell
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Analysis of California's Proposition 88: Education Funding, Real Property Parcel Tax, Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute
October 2006
By Lisa Snell
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» Press Release
Is Universal Preschool Beneficial? An Assessment of RAND Corporation's Analysis and the Proposals for California
May 2006
By Christopher F. Cardiff and Edward Stringham
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» Press Release
Assessing Proposals for Preschool and Kindergarten: Essential Information for Parents, Taxpayers and Policymakers
May 2006
By Darcy Olsen with Lisa Snell
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» Press Release
The Case Against Universal Preschool in California
February 2006
By Lisa Snell
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» Press Release
Driving More Money into the Classroom: The Promise of Shared Services
October 2005
By William D. Eggers, Lisa Snell, Robert Wavra, and Adrian T. Moore
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» Press Release
California's K-12 Education Primer
May 2005
By Lisa Snell
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School Accountability Reforms Only Work With Parental Involvement
March 2005
By Chuck Poochigian
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School Violence and No Child Left Behind: Best Practices to Keep Kids Safe
January 2005
By Lisa Snell
» Full Study (.pdf)
» Policy Summary (.pdf)
» Press Release
Addition and Subtraction: State and Local Regulatory Obstacles to Opening a New Private School
December 2004
By Bahaa Seireg
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Special Education Accountability: Structural Reform to Help Charter Schools Make the Grade
July 2004
By Lisa Snell
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Child Advocacy Centers: One Stop on the Road to Performance-based Child Protection
June 2003
By Lisa Snell
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Education Management Organizations: Growing a For-profit Education Industry with Choice, Competition, and Innovation
May 2002
By Guilbert C. Hentschke, Scot Oschman, and Lisa Snell
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School Vouchers As A Legal Sanction
December 2001
By Lisa Snell
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Sen. Obama Is Right: Parents Are the Key to Fixing Schools
More money won't save our troubled public schools
May 1, 2008 | Reason.org
By Joanne Jacobs
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Are Over 100,000 California Teachers Getting Pink Slips?
When it is time to make budget cuts, teachers shouldn't be the first to go
April 3, 2008 | Reason.org
By Lisa Snell, Reason
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Legacy Admissions Hurt Middle-Class Students
Stanford, Yale, Harvard and other universities offer tuition breaks but don't fix admissions process
March 18, 2008 | San Francisco Chronicle
By Shikha Dalmia, Reason
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Catholic Schools Struggle to Stay Open
Catholic schools produce good results, but are having trouble competing with public and charter schools
March 5, 2008 | Reason.org
By Joanne Jacobs
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Dust Up: Fixing Los Angeles' Schools
Reason Foundation's Lisa Snell debates former L.A. Board of Education member David Tokofsky
February 11, 2008 | Los Angeles Times
By Lisa Snell, Reason
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"Instructionist" School Reform and School Choice
Is it the right school finance solution for the state?
February 6, 2008 | Reason.com
By Lisa Snell, Reason
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Weighted Student Formula in Indiana
Is it the right school finance solution for the state?
January 24, 2008 | Indiana Policy Review
By Lisa Snell, Reason
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Weighted Student Formula and School Empowerment
Interview with Dr. William G. Ouchi
January 24, 2008 | Indiana Policy Review
By Lisa Snell, Reason
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No Child Left Behind Act: Keep it or Kill it?
Law has not lived up to grand expectations
December 13, 2007 | Reason Roundtable
By Shikha Dalmia, Reason
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The Constitution Left Behind
Respecting – not shredding – the Constitution will produce more educational opportunities
December 13, 2007 | Reason Roundtable
By Andrew J. Coulson
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Scrap NCLB? No
Reforming it will produce competition and quality schools
December 13, 2007 | Reason Roundtable
By Erin Dillon
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It Isn't the Bullying, Stupid, It's the Parenting
Don't blame school shootings on kids being bullied
December 4, 2007 | DC Examiner
By Joanne Jacobs, Reason
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Lessons From Abroad
School choice only helps education
October 29, 2007 | Chicago Tribune
By Shikha Dalmia, Reason
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Sending Poor Kids to Middle-Class Schools Doesn't Fix the System
It doesn't produce better test scores either
September 21, 2007 | McClatchy-Tribune News Service
By Joanne Jacobs, Reason
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Urban Schools Scores Rise When Parents, Principals Lead
"Weighted Student Formula" helping urban school districts close the achievement gap
August 26, 2007 | Indianapolis Star
By Lisa Snell, Reason
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Preschool Reality Check in New Jersey
Long-term benefits of preschool are being overstated
August 9, 2007 | The Record, NJ
By Lisa Snell, Reason
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California's Lost Students
"English Learners" caught in perverse system
August 1, 2007 | Reason.org
By Joanne Jacobs, Reason
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Money Talks
Give families school choice, and they will get choice schools
June 2007 issue | Edutopia Magazine
By Lisa Snell, Reason
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Election Day Lessons for LAUSD
Let Students Vote with Their Dollars
May 15, 2007 | Los Angeles Times
By Lisa Snell, Reason
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The Success of Charter Schools
Letter to the Editor
April 23, 2007 | Los Angeles Times
By Lisa Snell, Reason
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The Weighted Student Formula
Is There a Better Way to Fund Indiana Education?
March 15, 2007 | Indiana Policy Review
By Lisa Snell, Reason
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Indiana's Full-Day Kindergarten: A Wise Choice for Education Dollars?
Negligible, short-term results won't fix Indiana's schools
March 6, 2007 | Indianapolis Star
By Lisa Snell, Reason
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Experimenting With School Choice: A Tale of Two California Districts
Oakland, Compton show school choice can improve results more than the status quo
February 23, 2007 | Education Week
By Lisa Snell and Shikha Dalmia, Reason
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State Education Tests Don't Snuff Creativity
Parents get road map to follow progress
December 4, 2006 | Riverside Press Enterprise
By Lisa Snell, Reason
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Blacks and Hispanics Don't Need Racial Preference Laws
As California shows, minorities get into good schools all the same
November 26, 2006 | Chicago Sun Times
By Shikha Dalmia, Reason
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Midterm Election Silver Lining
Michigan's affirmative action vote may signal national trend
November 22, 2006 | Washington Times
By Henry Payne and Shikha Dalmia, Reason
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