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School choice expanding in urban districts

By Jason Russell

Published February 4, 2016 5:01am ET

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School choice expanding in urban districts — "There is much to learn from the efforts in New Orleans," according to Russ Whitehurst, the Brookings senior fellow who authored the report. "The Recovery District has a high availability of choice, with all of the public schools being charters." (AP Photo)

More than half of the largest school districts in the country give parents a choice on where to send their children to school, a number that has doubled in the past 15 years.

Three districts received an A or A- in the newest annual edition of the Education Choice and Competition Index, published Thursday by the centrist Brookings Institution. Those districts were Denver, New York and the unique all-public charter Recovery School District in New Orleans, which scored best.

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