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MSU Education Policy Innovation Collaborative wins share of $10 million grant to launch national school choice research center

DATE: July 19, 2018

MSU faculty members and co-directors of the Education Policy Innovation Collaborative (EPIC) Joshua Cowen and Katharine Strunk are on the five-person leadership team for REACH, which will be housed at Tulane University and encompass scholars from more than 14 other universities and organizations nationwide. EPIC will receive approximately $2 million of the total five-year grant and will primarily study school choice issues in Michigan.

The National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, or REACH, funded by a $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences, will produce cutting-edge research on charter schools, school vouchers, and other choice programs.

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EPIC works with state and district partners to create a targeted research agenda to learn which reform strategies are most effective, where, when and for whom.

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