Mixed Results For Vouchers, Studies Find

(from Education Week) Plans for a federal private school choice program have hit roadblocks, but there's a strong push to create new voucher programs in some states and expand existing programs in others. Critics and proponents are asking critical questions about how well vouchers and other similarly styled policies serve students and whether there are guardrails in place to ensure the public money being funneled into private school choice is a sound investment. Recent studies in Indiana, Louisiana and Ohio show that students who attend private schools with the help of public money may end up doing worse after they leave their public schools. Yet an Urban Institute study found that in Florida students participating in the tax-credit scholarship program enrolled in college at higher rates than their peers in traditional public schools.

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