Milton & Rose D. Friedman Foundation

A foundation supported by Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman. Advocates restructuring the education system to ensure educational service competition and free choice.
http://www.friedmanfoundation.org/

Center for Education Reform

Advocacy, statistics, resources and guidance on education reform issues and action at the school, district, state and national levels, from School Choice, charter schools, and educational entrepreneurialism to high academic standards, teacher professional
http://edreform.com/

School Choice Programs: What's Happening in the States

This conservative research facility publishes details and statistics on each state's School Choice efforts, and maintains links to many other Choice sites.
http://www.heritage.org/schools/

School Choices: A Citizen's Guide to Education Reform

A worldwide research comparing competitive schools to government run schools. Many essays, articles, book reviews, and complete book chapters included.
http://www.schoolchoices.org

Why School Vouchers Can Help Inner-City Children

The Manhattan Institute feature article by The Honorable Kurt L. Schmoke, Mayor of Baltimore "The City That Reads."
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cb_20.htm

Educational Issues

National Center for Policy Analysis whitepapers on education issues, particularly School Choice and teacher's union obstruction of Choice reforms.
http://www.ncpa.org/pi/edu/edu1.html

Floridians for School Choice

Action-oriented and effective advocacy for giving every family in Florida the opportunity to choose their child's school using public education funds as a scholarship.
http://www.floridians.org/

Citizens For Educational Freedom

Helps parents take action to acquire freedom of education for their children. Provides newsletters, a three-step tutorial what to do, and background information.
http://www.educational-freedom.org/

Education Policy Institute

Documented inside information on PTA and teacher unions. Education research and policy analysis from a public choice and pro-market perspective, plus expert revelations on teacher unions, collective bargaining in education, PTA issues, and education refor
http://www.educationpolicy.org/

National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools

National organization supporting parents, students and teachers enrolled in alternative education. Membership information, publications, resources, jobs, news, and contact information.
http://www.ncacs.org/

School Vouchers Links

Definitions of some common terms used regarding the issue as well as links to sites for and against school choice through vouchers.
http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/project/voucher/index.html

Universal Tuition Tax Credit

Mackinac Center for Public Policy - "Proposal to Advance Parental Choice in Education". Also available as a 76 page download.
http://www.mackinac.org/article.asp?ID=362

Reason Magazine - No vouchers for you

Review of a speach by a member of the black community.
http://reason.com/hod/sm061501.html

Black Alliance for Education Options

Supports empowering low income black families with school choice.
http://www.baeo.org

Virtual Charters: Public Schooling at Home

K12, a Virtual charter school led by former education secretary, Bill Bennett, provides free curriculum, computers and connections for homeschoolers.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0108/p14s1-lepr.html

Faith In Public Schools Fades

African-American parents with children in Georgia public schools are more likely than white parents to think private companies should run those facilities.
http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/100299/met_1b1Priva.html

Unnatural Monopoly in Education

Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty. Think-tank studies focus on economics of parents exercising their rights as primary educators of children.
http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/education/index.html

Dr. Quentin Quade's essays on school choice

Part of Blum Center at Marquette University's effort to collect, organize, synthesize and distribute information regarding school choice efforts across the country.
http://www.marquette.edu/blum/pamph.html

Excellent Education for Everyone

Collection of articles in favour of school choice by the coalition of New Jersey citizens.
http://www.nje3.org

Class Acts

Arizona had 1/3 of the nation's charter schools. This study by business and economics writer James K. Glassman looks at competitive effects on all schools.
http://www.reason.com/9804/fe.glassman.html

Resources for Teachers Needing Help

The American Society for Ethics in Education offers resources for teachers.
http://www.edethics.org/resources_for_teachers.htm

The Right Thing; Why liberals should be pro-choice

A Brookings Institution fellow, in The New Republic, discusses emerging political constituencies for Choice versus the cognitive dissonance created by our current government monopoly.
http://www.brookings.edu/views/articles/ravitch/20011008.htm

The Charter School Project

An organization networking with charter schools provides weekly updates of the state legislation relating to public charter schools.
http://www.charterproject.org/

4Choice - School Choice without Vouchers

Presentation of a model legislation that lets parents choose the school.
http://4Brevard.com/choice/

Cost of Education

Cato Institute study: What Would a Voucher Buy. Documents the cost of public and private education.
http://www.cato.org/pubs/briefs/bp-025.html

Eliminate Governmental Interference in Education

Alliance for Intellectual Freedom in Education supports Choice, with emphasis on homeschooling.
http://www.mainstream.net/nhpolitics/thinker.html

School Choice Wisconsin

Provides information on the impact of school choice on families, communities, and schools.
http://www.schoolchoiceinfo.org/

WorldNetDaily: Vouching for Liberty by Alan Keyes

Article by the conservative commentator proposing public school choice in the United States without vouchers.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=21329

School Choice Wars

John Merrifield, economics professor at University of Texas, in articles and a new book, explains why K-12 schools governed by market forces would be much more attractive to teachers than the status quo.
http://business.utsa.edu/faculty/jmerrifi/

Parents In Charge - How Do We Build Better Schools

Policy brief focuses on teacher issues of quality and salary differentials affected by school choice.
http://parentsincharge.org/press/index.cfm?fuseaction=policy&id=68

School Choice Research - Harvard University Index

Program on Education Policy and Governance presents research papers and executive summaries on the results of innovative US policies.
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/pepg/

The National Charter School Clearinghouse

Provides resources on several charter school research topics.
http://www.ncsc.info

Michigan Union Accountability Act:

Mackinac Center for Public Policy takes aim at teacher unions as the main barrier to School Choice. See study, proposed legislation, and other policy research.
http://www.mackinac.org/article.asp?ID=3944

Reason magazine - Schools of Thought

Article explaining some backgrounds on the topic and the organizations involved.
http://reason.com/9701/fe.rick.shtml

Grandfather Education Report

A comprehensive review, in picture/graphic form, of the status and trends of education quality and its cost.
http://mwhodges.home.att.net/education.htm

Fraser Institute - Competitive Market Solutions

See what Americans can learn from school choice success in Canada. The Case for School Choice: Models from the United States, New Zealand, Denmark, and Sweden.
http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/education/index.asp?snav=edu

FOXNews - Are Parents Boycotting Public Schools?

The article describes the movement of taking kids out of public schools.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,52076,00.html

Scholastic Achievement and Demographic Characteristics of Home School Students

A large study comparing home school students and their counterparts.
http://www.hslda.org/docs/study/rudner1999/Rudner0.asp

Who Got It Right? Retrospective on the Department of Education

Thomas Fordham think tank juxtaposes federal bureaucratic promises with lack of results, concluding that in 20 years DOE has wasted billions satisfying teachers unions, and is detrimental to education.
http://www.edexcellence.net/issuespl/subject/federal/eddept.html

School Choice Research - Manhattan Institute Index

Comprehensive summary of education reform policy studies published by their Center for Civic Innovation.
http://www.manhattaninstitute.org/html/cci.htm#educationreform

School Choice Research - The Cato Institute: Index

Extensive library of studies, articles and monographs based on classical values of individual liberty, limited government, free markets.
http://www.cato.org/current/school-choice/index.html

School Choice and Policy Advocacy

The Boise Center for Religion and American Public Life publishd a list of advocacy groups.
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/research/rapl/issues/schoolchoice/sc_advocacy.html

School Choice: Issues and Answers

Citizens for a Sound Economy research paper is easy to read and well referenced. It covers 8 forms of Choice.
http://www.cse.org/processor/printer.php?issue_id=669

PACE Parents Advancing Choice in Education

Montgomery County, Ohio grassroots example of community scholarships and guidance, helping parents exercise choice.
http://www.pacedayton.org/home.htm

Freedom Of Education

News, information, essays, and links promoting educational liberty and separation of school and state.
http://www.FreedomOfEducation.org

School Choice: Good for Teachers

A teacher explores reasons why Choice will increase demand and salaries for good teachers.
http://www.mackinac.org/pubs/mer/article.asp?ID=3429

School Reform News

Reprints of education articles reporting on school reform efforts nationwide from School Choice to Teacher Unions.
http://www.heartland.org/IssueSuiteTopic.cfm?issId=3&istId=206

School Reform News

The Heartland Institute's national monthly outreach publication for school reformers, with 1000s of articles on vouchers, test scores and graduation rates.
http://www.heartland.org/Publications.cfm?pblId=6

The Union That Killed Education

Newsmax.com Book review "The Worm in the Apple: How the Teachers Unions Are Destroying American Education," a new book by Peter Brimelow
http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/2/16/204756.shtml

Diligently to Thy Children: The Case for School Choice

The group Toward Tradition advocates school choice based on Torah and traditional Jewish principles.
http://www.towardtradition.org/Publications/SchoolChoice_5-10.pdf

Alliance for the Separation of School and State

Argues against the interference by government in education.
http://honestedu.org/

Charter Schools Development Center

Resources for charter school developers and charter granting agencies.
http://www.cacharterschools.org/

The Brookings Institution

The center presents its research, books, and commentary.
http://www.brookings.edu/data/brookings_taxonomy.xml?taxonomy=Education*School%20choice

Jews and School Choice

The article shows the problem from a jewish point of view.
http://www.jefi.org/9.2.03/html/btz/comm58.html