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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaetz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points * As rore states adopt univ:Ersai education savings accourts, analysts have declared that the final frontier of school choice has been reached. They're wron. C Sorm parnts want inedat ption betreen privakt- school and homeschoolinC and are reluctant to sever ties vitt their local public school dstrict. ` States can foster district-parent microschoo partnerships by incentivizincg school districts to allow small groups of parerts to teach students at home with public firancial ass-stance bet total curricular frexedom. In the past two years, nearly 10 states have adopted universal elucatrion savings account QESA) pregrams. Does this suggest tha the school choice overnment is almost over, with nothing left to fight for except advanc- ing these bills in other states where passage is poliiti- cally possible? Far from it. There is another choice that parents might want to make and poelcymakers should spPOT: Rather than opting entirely out of the public school system, parents should partner with their local schools to estal isih parent- nicroschools. Such a proposal is now being considered in Idaho. Many parents value their public school but bject tr he curneulum or wish. their child could receive a more prr- senalized and tailored education. Given the lack of pri- vate school options, an ESA program would sirmpq send money to these parents and tell them thcy'rer on their owe., Rather tha.: (or perhaps in addition o) doing tcat, the state could provide rnoney'to parents to arnerwith their dLstrict school to create and operate ricroschoois, Ujnder the proposai being debated, parets may access stare funds in one of two ways. First, the traiu -the--parent fuindrIng model would allow parents to reach their own children at home and receive up to $s;oo per child to be used for expenses. The funding would be allocated thr ugh the current fudung stream going to district snhoois; 0. extra state funding is nceded. The amounrt of faminlv-controlled funding would be set in district policy. iTese partnerships can be pursued only with the school district's sponsorship. Second, the outcome--ba Ed iundinmg (OBF) model allows parents to access up to 4C pereent-the aruout set by law-----of the average statcw ile spencling per stu- dent (approximately $4,oo) i Idaho, given in three installmnents Two installnicnts of apm oximately $1,2,o are allocated per semester, rhil the last installent i.s aliocared on Passage of the statevi.de test. v y, exa t;ly would a school dmstrict agree to this pa-Tnersh *?? After all, on the one hand, it would lose about half of te per-pupil money for students who opt into thies s micsehool partnerships. But on the other hand, it would retain half of the per-pupil money- more than lt wcull if a family iecidcd to homecschool or took advantage of an ESA. Indeed, in states that have already passed E SAs, school distrits should----- in theory-----support these microschool partership proposals, as they present a financially advantageous

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