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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: QP: Education Savings Accounts Would Make Oregon Students Better Off
Description: Full-text: This is National School Choice Week, an annual celebration of opportunity in K-12 education. Students and families need more education options now. School choice means giving parents access to the best options for their children.
Critics of school choice programs like Education Savings Accounts claim such programs would harm district public schools by reducing their state funding. However, a new report published by Cascade Policy Institute shows ESAs do not reduce public school funding at the state level or for individual school districts.
The report, “Education Savings Accounts: A School Choice Solution That Can Sa...