More on Vouchers
Bruce Baker, esteemed school finance researcher and a good friend of mine, has access to national and state data on private school tuition. He kindly ran some Texas numbers for us and has them at:
He found, as I did with Texas data based on looking up individual school data from Texas websites, that the voucher proposed by Rep. Miller would NOT cover most of the schools’ tuition.
See my other post here for details:
http://fullerlook.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/vouchers/
While the researchers supporting the voucher plan assume the vouchers will increase the number of students attending existing private schools (based on one study from 1990 that preceded charter schools, thus is no