How Schools Respond to Competition

David Figlio talks with Education Next about his new study, which finds that  public schools in Florida raise their performance when faced with the prospect of losing students to nearby private schools via the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program.

For more, read the study, “Does Competition Improve Public Schools?,” by David Figlio and Cassandra Hart, in the Winter 2011 issue of Education Next.

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