Description: This volume seeks to provide a comprehensive, fair-minded treatment of Education Savings Accounts and will address the rationale for them, the challenges they pose, what it takes for them to work and the political and legal dynamics at play.
Review Quotes:
"Education Savings Accounts: The New Frontier in School Choice provides a hands-on view of one of the most important conversations in school choice today. Rather than cheerleading any single view, the authors offer questions and insights that help the reader understand how ESAs work and discover what they could mean for American education reform moving forward." --Debbie Lesko, Arizona Senator
"The unfortunate lesson of history is that a public education model that treats parents inequitably treats their children no differently. The authors of this book outline a bold, new direction that disrupts this failed status quo. By empowering all parents with the freedom and resources to seek better educational options, we better ensure the success of their children in the classroom and in life." --Jeb Bush, 43rd Governor of the State of Florida, Founder, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Excellence in Education "This book features contributions from the nation's leading school choice scholars, legal experts, and advocates that address how ESAs work, what it will take for them to deliver on their potential, and how policymakers and parents should think about this new educational option. As a promising new frontier in American education, it is vital that those who support ESAs be thinking from the start about the challenges they pose and how to address them. This book is a useful tool to do just that." --Frederick Hess, author of Letters to a Young Education Reformer; director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute "ESAs are the most exciting new thing to hit the education reform stage and this volume presents the perspectives of an all-star cast on this new reform's potential. Even if it isn't as hard to get as tickets to Hamilton, everyone involved in education policy will want to grab a copy of this book so they can better understand how ESAs work, the regulatory and accountability challenges they face, as well as the legal and political advantages they offer." --Jay P. Greene, endowed chair and head of the Department of Education Reform, University of Arkansas, Ph.D., endowed chair and head of the Department of Education Reform, University of Arkansas