LFC Daily News Clips | June 26, 2017

Good Morning

Today, researchers from the School Choice Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas and the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans at Tulane University will release findings from their study of the third year of results from the Louisiana Scholarship Program at the Urban Institute in Washington.

Patrick Wolf, holder of the Twenty-First Century Chair in School Choice at the U of A, co-authored a summary of the latest reports on the publicly funded private school choice program in Louisiana with Jonathan Mills, a senior research associate in the Department of Education Reform at the U of A. Wolf directs the School Choice Demonstration Project.

Have a great week. – Paul

Louisiana

Univeristy of Arkansas
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Times-Picayune
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Times-Picayune
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American Press
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The Times
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