Transcripts of other voucher-related events are also available. CCI also released a study modeling the effect of publicly funded voucher programs on housing segregation and perceptions of school quality in New York City. In 2000, CCI will continue to devote time and resources to the study and discussion of school vouchers. Much of this work will be the product of CCI s new Senior Fellow, Dr. Jay Greene . Dr. Greene is a nationally recognized expert on the effects of school vouchers on educational outcomes and school integration, and his research for the Institute will concentrate in those areas.
Charter schools are another promising, choice-based reform.
Charter schools are public schools that are freed from most regulations and mandates, giving school administrators, teachers and parents the opportunity to form innovative and productive schools. Over thirty states have now enacted this reform and hundreds of thousands of children across the country are now enjoying enhanced educational opportunity because of these schools. Our experts will continue to study the performance of these schools and provide ideas on how the charter revolution can best be implemented. So far this year, CCI has hosted two events highlighting the achievements of the charter school movement. A conference in March, co-sponsored with the Program for Education Policy and Governance at Harvard s Kennedy School of Government, featured presentations of papers by over twenty noted scholars on what the current state of research shows about the effects of charter schools and voucher programs.