Parents' Choice. A Report on Education Vouchers in East Hartford, Connecticut. Volumes I and II.

This report chronicles the East Hartford, Connecticut, Parents' Choice Project--an education voucher plan. The plan was intended to dovetail with the school system's already-existing open enrollment policy and was to include the area's private and parochial schools, as well as all the public schools. The feasibility and implementation studies investigated the community's attitudes toward a voucher plan, specified the kind of plan most appropriate for East Hartford, examined student transportation systems, and distributed information to parents about the plan. Even though the board of education finally failed to approve the project, the East Hartford school system was provided with improved budgeting, transportation, and student management systems as a result of the feasibility and implementation studies. Volume I of this document provides a general overview of the study, and Volume II presents the organizational and technical systems developed for the implementation of a voucher system. (Author/DS)