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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]

Pp here. I was responding to the link upstream about a study of Louisiana schools. A poster read it selectively and made the claim that vouchers don't work. If you read the link posted, you'll see the researchers recommended that vouchers be applied to schools with higher tuitions as they might be better resourced to meet students' needs. The NYC results are easily googled - it was a Wall St. Journal study. . Sorry, I can't post links easily on my mobile.

I don't have time now to read the other studies, but I will and post back. My observations are from nine years as a parent in MCPS, three years in religious private schools, and my own time volunteering in DCPS.

BTW, I am a Democrat who protested DeVos' nomination. That doesn't mean that some small scale experimentation with vouchers shouldn't be tried - but they need to be used in good schools, not just small, inexpensive privates, like BOOST is targeting. DC's program is much better - The Bishop Walker School in SE, St. Alban's, Sidwell and most other privates participate.

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