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27. See David Boaz and R. Morris Barrett, "What Would a
School Voucher Buy? The Real Cost of Private Schools,"
Cato Institute Briefing Paper no. 25, March 26, 1996, pp.
14, http://www.cato.org/pubs/briefs/bp025.html; and David
Boaz, "Department of Education" in Cato Handbook for
Congress: 106th Congress (Washington: Cato Institute,
1999), pp. 123-31.
28.
Boaz and Barrett, p. 2.
29. David Boaz, "The Public School Monopoly: America's
Berlin Wall," in Liberating Schools: Education in the
Inner City (Washington: Cato Institute, 1991), pp. 1112.
30. For more information on public schools and ideas for
reform, see Bruce Goldberg, Why Schools Fail (Washington:
Cato Institute, 1996); David Harmer, School Choice: Why
You Need It, How You Get It (Washington: Cato Institute,
1994); Daniel McGroarty, Break These Chains: The Battle
for School Choice (Rocklin, Calif.: Prima, 1994), pp. 14-
32; and Myron Lieberman, Public Education: An Autopsy
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993).
31. Preschool is usually considered a type of "child
care." The largest surveys on child care, including the
National Child Care Survey, 1990 (Washington: Urban
Institute, 1991); and A Profile of Child Care Settings:
Early Education and Care in 1990 (Princeton, N.J.:
Mathmatica Policy Research, 1991), include data on pre-
school. For more about the availability, affordability,
and quality of child-care and preschool arrangements, see
Darcy Olsen, "The Advancing Nanny State: Why the
Government Should Stay Out of Child Care," Cato Institute
Policy Analysis no. 285, October 23, 1997; Darcy Olsen,
"State of the Union, Issue: Child Care," Cato Institute
Fact Sheet, January 30, 1998; and Robert Rector, "Facts
about American Families and Day Care," Heritage Foundation
FYI no. 170, January 21, 1998.
32. For more information on quality issues, see Olsen,
"The Advancing Nanny State," pp. 511.
33. It is unclear whether those minor differences recorded
in the short term will significantly affect children's
long-term development. See, for example, "Mother-Child
Interaction and Cognitive Outcomes Associated with Early
Child Care: Results of the NICHD Study," Poster symposium
presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for
Research in Child Development, Washington, April 1997.
34.
New York State Board of Regents, "Background Paper in