Georgia Heyward identifies several trends in cities offering public school choice and shares strategies for addressing the most persistent challenges.
Georgia Heyward

Georgia Heyward is a research analyst at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, where she has worked on the 18-city project Stepping Up and supported charter-district collaboration in Washington State. Before joining CRPE, she researched rural education and wrote program evaluations for Washington State school districts and nonprofits. Georgia started her career as a bilingual elementary teacher through the NYC Teaching Fellows program. She then worked as a teacher and administrator at a bilingual performing arts school. For three years, she was the assessment coordinator for a start-up, nonprofit college. Georgia has a BA in Liberal Arts from Evergreen State College and an MEd in Education Policy from the University of Washington.
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The nominating panel charged with selecting candidates for Philadelphia’s new nine-member school board has received its last application.
Christine Campbell and Georgia Heyward show how school choice is creating new opportunities for families as well as challenges for cities.
Hill and Heyward caution that the shorter school week isn't saving rural schools money, and it's risky for students.
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