Abstract
History was made on January 29, 2004, when President George W. Bush signed the District of Columbia School Choice Incentive Act of 2003.1 The law established the first federally funded private school choice program in the United States. A total of 2,454 students in over 1,500 families received what came to be called Opportunity Scholarships through t he program in 2004 and 2005, which allowed them to enroll in the participating private school of their choosing. Through a series of focus groups, in-depth interviews, and real-time opinion polling, we followed 110 of the families in the program, documenting their joys, struggles, setbacks, and triumphs as participants in a pioneering parental school choice program. This is their story.KeywordsPrivate SchoolCharter SchoolSchool ReformSchool ChoiceVoucher ProgramThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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