Education Liberty Watch Private School Choice Freedom Grading Scale Table
|
STATE |
TYPE OF SCHOOL CHOICE |
TYPE OF ACCOUNTABILITY TESTING IF ANY |
ACCEPTED COMMON CORE? |
FREEDOM GRADE |
| Arizona (2006) | CSTC – Means tested | Nationally norm referenced test |
Yes |
B |
| Arizona (1997) | ISTC | None listed |
Yes |
A |
| Arizona (2009) | CSTC-low income & foster children | None listed |
Yes
|
A |
| Arizona (2011) | ESA – Children w/disabilities | None listed |
Yes |
A |
| Colorado (2011) | UV- Douglas Co. | State tests for recipients |
Yes |
D
|
| Florida (1999- expanded 2011) | SNV (McKay) | None Listed |
Yes |
A |
| Florida (2001 & expanded 2011 & 2012) | CSTC | Recipients must take either national norm-referenced or state tests |
Yes |
C |
| Georgia (2001) | SNV | Schools must report recipients’ academic progress to parents and state |
Yes |
A+ |
| Georgia (2008) | CSTC & ISTC | None listed |
Yes |
A |
| Indiana (2009) | CSTC & ISTC | State or NNRT |
Yes |
C |
| Indiana (2011) | MTV | Private schools must administer state tests |
Yes |
F |
| Iowa (2006 & expanded in 2011) | ISTC & CSTC | None listed |
Yes |
A |
| Louisiana (2008) | MTV/FSV in New Orleans | Private schools must administer state tests to voucher recipients |
Yes |
D |
| Louisiana (2010) | SNV | None listed |
Yes |
A |
| Louisiana (2012) | MTV/FSV – statewide | State tests to recipients & report to parents |
Yes |
D+ |
| North Carolina (2011) | ISTC – disabilities | None listed |
Yes |
A |
| New Hampshire (2012) | ISTC & CSTC | None listed |
Yes |
A+ |
| Ohio (1995) | MTV – Cleveland School District | Private schools must administer state tests |
Yes |
F |
| Ohio (2003) | SNV – autism | None listed |
Yes |
A |
| Ohio (2005) | FSV | Private schools must administer state tests |
Yes |
F |
| Ohio (2011) | SNV | School must administer state tests unless student exempted due to IEP |
Yes |
D |
| Oklahoma (2010) | SNV | None listed |
Yes |
A |
| Oklahoma (2011) | CSTC & ISTC | NONE – Ensures academic accountability through regular progress reports to parents |
Yes |
A+ |
| Pennsylvania (2001) | CSTC | None listed |
Yes |
A |
| Rhode Island (2006) | CSTC | None listed |
Yes |
A |
| Utah (2005) | SNV | Administer annual assessment of student’s academic progress and report results to the student’s parents |
Yes |
B |
| Virginia (2012) | CSTC | Private schools must administer NNRT annually, report results to parents, & aggregate results to state DOE |
No |
B+ |
| Washington, DC (2004) | MTV | Administer NNRT & conduct comparative evaluation utilizing D.C. PublicSchools, Charter Schools, and OSP school testing data |
Yes |
B+ |
| Wisconsin (1990) | MTV – Milwaukee district | Administer state tests to scholarship recipients in grade 4, 8, & 10 & provide scores to School Choice DemonstrationProject |
Yes |
D+ |
| Wisconsin (2011) | MTV – Racine district | Administer state tests to scholarship recipients in grades 4, 8, and 10 |
Yes |
D+ |
FREEDOM GRADING SCALE:
A+ = No testing requirements and accountability only to parents
A = No testing requirements
B+ = Requires only a nationally norm-referenced test and reports results to parents
B = Requires only a nationally norm-referenced test (Not currently tied to Common Core)
C = Requires the state tests or a nationally norm-referenced test
D+ = Requires private schools to give voucher recipients the state tests but reports results to an outside entity instead of the state
D = Requires private schools to give voucher/tax credit recipients the state tests
F = Requires private schools to give state tests to all students in a private school
ABBREVIATIONS:
CSTC = Corporate Scholarship Tax Credit
ESA = Education Savings Account
FSV = Failing School Voucher
ISTC = Individual Scholarship Tax Credit
MTV = Means Tested Voucher
NNRT = Nationally Norm-Referenced Test
SNV = Special Needs Voucher
UV = Universal Voucher
*Information, except for 2012 laws, adapted from Alliance for School Choice: School Choice Year Book 2011-12
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- What is Common Core – Education Without Representation
Implying that Common Core/federal mandates are the problem associated with private schools (corporations) getting our tax dollars misses the mark entirely. The problem is that private schools ARE taking public money knowing full well that, in doing so, they are becoming agents of the state.
“Publicly funded and privately serviced” is unconstitutional & unAmerican no matter the rest of the story.
Are we to simply forget that private schools ARE NOT being forced to take vouchers? If they don’t want Common Core, the solution is a simple one: stay private — don’t accept government assistance of any kind. Afterall, that is the definition of “private school”.
A very important point seems to keep being left-out of the discussion: “School Choice” IS designed to be THE END OF PRIVATE SCHOOL EDUCATION WHETHER COMMON CORE STANDARDS OR STATE STANDARDS ARE UTILIZED.
What states are really being asked to decide in the “School Choice” debate is: do you only want government education–do you want to end the choice of parents to private education??
Unfortunately, this cold, hard fact has been totally lost in all of this.
The fight that we must wage is for the rights of Americans to NOT have their money that should be starting, expanding or securing OUR OWN businesses taken from us by the state and given to other corporations.
The fight that we must wage is to ensure that our grandchildren and their grandchildren will have the same opportunity that many of us gave to our children: a private education free of government interference in schools not sullied by participation in public-private partnerships.
Publicly Funded + Privately Serviced = Nothing Resembling the U.S of A.
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