School Choice
You are in the School Choice section of the Casey Foundation Knowledge Center, which offers resources that are either published or funded by the Casey Foundation. Resources include those that explore small schools, community schools, vouchers, and charter schools.
See also the Our Work: Education, an overview of the Casey Foundation's investments in this issue.
See also all Education resources in the Knowledge Center.
Closing the Achivement Gap Series
2010
Through its education investments, the Annie E. Casey Foundation helps ensure that young people graduate from school prepared to succeed as adults. The Foundation achieves this by supporting quality school choices and strong connections between schools, families, and communities. Closing the Achievement Gap is a series of stories, results, and lessons learned from seven years of education investing.
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Paying for College: Availability of Need-based Financial Aid for New Jersey's Working Adults
2010
Low-income adult workers trying to pursue post-secondary education in New Jersey encounter significant barriers to accessing financial aid. Although New Jersey ranks among the top three states in the amount of grant and scholarship assistance offered per student, working adults encounter a complex application process, inconsistent criteria and increasingly high tuition and costs.
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Food For Thought: Building a High-Quality School Choice Market
2009
This report looks at the benefits of school choice in low-income, urban neighborhoods that have long suffered from low educational achievement.
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Public Charter School Dashboard 2009
2009
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools’ Dashboard, made possible with funding from both the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Danels Fund, documents the growth in the public charter school sector. To date, the dashboard contains the largest set of statistical indicators documenting the growth of the charter schools.
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Closing the Achievement Gap - Creating Quality Choices: DISTRICT SCHOOLS
2008
The Casey Foundation has supported a number of different efforts at district school improvement in order to learn how small investments might contribute to closing the achievement gap. This publication provides an in-depth look at the Foundation’s multi-year investment in a school district in Atlanta. It also includes stories about Casey’s contributions to district improvements in Oakland and Philadelphia.
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