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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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If Sidwell and St. Alban's want to provide an education to poor kids whose needs aren't being met in the public schools, they can do that without tax dollars. Also, I wonder how many poor kids whose needs aren't being met can be accommodated by Sidwell and St. Alban's?

The fact is that any voucher program will primarily involve inexpensive private schools, not Sidwell and St. Alban's, because that's what there is. Even in DC, where the vouchers were for $7,500 and where there are lots of fancy expensive private schools, only 14% of students through 2009 attended schools with a tuition higher than the voucher.[/quote]

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