Democurmudgeon
Democurmudgeon: After 3 Years, Most of the Milwaukee Voucher Students Left.
After 3 Years, Most of the Milwaukee Voucher Students Left.
It's funny how bits and pieces of research keep shredding away the idea that vouchers will improve our system of education. All we're really doing is creating a parallel system with its own problems, similar to the public system, and hoping it doesn't get worse.
Jsonline: A long-range study evaluating voucher schools in Milwaukee is finding little difference in academic achievement between their students and those in public schools, state auditors said … But the study is complicated by the fact that three years into the research, most of the private school students selected for it are no longer attending schools in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program.
Only 1,097, or 40.2%, of the 2,727 voucher school students selected for the study in the 2006-'07