Using Targeted Private School Choice to Eliminate Pockets of Persistent Urban Poverty: A Preliminary Assessment

John D. Merrifield ()

Nonpartisan Education Review, 2023, vol. 19, issue 1, 1-25

Abstract: 1) Evidence that private school choice expansion (PSCE) can quickly yield economic development and environmental benefits for areas of concentrated poverty could create a pathway around the political gridlock blocking genuine experiments in universal, low-restriction private school choice; 2) The PSCE-development connection raises a lot of questions that may need answers before the implied policy reforms can be optimized and gain widespread acceptance; and 3) Traditional-method-based attacks on persistent urban pockets of severe, concentrated poverty have a disappointing track record. To avoid de facto policy abandonment of large swathes of many cities, we desperately need a dependable, quick, low-cost way to deliver place-focused economic development.

Keywords: education; policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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