PRI’s groundbreaking publication Not As Good As You Think: Why the Middle Class Needs School Choice offers hard data to demonstrate that financial waste and mediocre comparative academic performance are widespread and increasingly well documented in the K–12 public school system, even in so-called “good school districts.” Using California schools as the representative example, the works explores how school policies in middle-class neighborhoods have harmed the education and prospects of middle-class children and led to declining relative academic performance.
Not As Good As You Think: Why the Middle Class Needs School Choice documents the discrepancy between high school proficiency and college readiness, identifies the culprits, and offers solutions to improve academic outcomes.