Project on Milwaukee Vouchers Shares Baseline Findings
A major research effort that aims to measure the effects of the Milwaukee voucher program this week released a
baseline portrait
of the program, its students, and a comparable group of students in the city’s public schools.
The one-year snapshot of 2006-07 found little difference in state test scores between students who use the tuition subsidies to attend private schools and those who attend public schools.
The finding is one of many released Feb. 25 by the School Choice Demonstration Project , based at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Others include an analysis of the fiscal impact of the voucher program, statistical profiles of the two sets of schools, and measures of parents’ and...
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