Vassallo's MORE THAN GRADES Cited by Cato Institute Report

Philip Vassallo's 2000 study for the Cato Institute, More Than Grades: How School Choice Boosts Parental Involvement and Benefits Children, was cited in another Cato study demonstrating that school choice for private schools has been the modus operandi in rural Maine for more than a century. The report, Lessons from Maine: Education Vouchers for Students since 1873 by Frank Heller, referenced Vassallo’s report as follows:

Most reports find that parents in choice programs define educational excellence in terms of a combination of factors; the most important are safety, discipline, and instructional quality.

Here are the links to both reports:

• More Than Grades: How Choice Boosts Parental Involvement and Benefits Children by Philip Vassallo: www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa383.pdf
• Lessons from Maine: Education Vouchers for Students since 1873 by Frank Heller: ww.cato.org/pubs/briefs/bp66.pdf