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These studies are questionable. First, if you limit Boost funds to be applied to schools charging only $14k as Boost does, you are self-selecting schools that are not well-funded. Contrast that to DC's Opportunity Scholarship, which grants modest sums for kids to study at most privates in DC - including those with tuition above $30k or $40k. Second, privates don't teach to the test - they don't prep kids for standardized tests for days on end, as my kids' public school did. There are studies that show black males from voucher-funded privates in NYC are more likely to attend college.[/quote]

Post a link to that study, please?

And then please explain why that one study is good, while three consecutive reports, each studying one of the largest new state voucher programs, each finding that vouchers [b]hurt[/b] student learning, are bad.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/upshot/dismal-results-from-vouchers-surprise-researchers-as-devos-era-begins.html?_r=0

(And honestly, I'm just not interested in the "it's because privates don't teach to the test, whereas public schools do nothing but test prep" excuse.)[/quote]

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