‘Can School Choice and School Accountability Successfully Coexist?’
in Hoxby, C. (ed.), The Economics of School Choice, University of Chicago Press
Analyses Florida’s school accountability system, which is based on giving vouchers to pupils at consistently underperforming schools, while giving financial rewards to improving schools.
The authors investigate whether this mixed accountability/voucher system improves opportunities for the most disadvantaged children.
Uses panel data to assess whether different voucher criteria (based on e.g. family income or average level of school poverty) would focus vouchers more effectively on the least advantaged.
Concludes that the Florida system fails to give vouchers to many who need them
