The Sow’s Ear Still Hasn’t Become a Silk Purse February 26, 2008
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Voucher study finds parity
The first full-force examination since 1995 of Milwaukee’s groundbreaking school voucher program has found that students attending private schools through the program aren’t doing much better or worse than students in Milwaukee Public Schools.
The study, released Monday in Madison, is the first from a five-year project aimed at providing a comprehensive evaluation of the voucher program, which this year is allowing more than 18,000 Milwaukee children from low-income families to attend private schools, 80% of them religious schools.
The authors caution repeatedly that stronger conclusions will come only when trends over several years can be examined, and not much should be read into this year’s results.
And the headline of this post is “that stronger conclusion” that will eventually be made.
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