{"id":507075,"date":"2010-04-02T19:10:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T23:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/vouchers-do-not-harm-public-schools-41786\/"},"modified":"2010-04-02T19:10:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T23:10:32","slug":"vouchers-do-not-harm-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/507075","title":{"rendered":"Vouchers Do Not Harm Public Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On 04.02.10 12:00 PM posted by Jason Richwine<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/schoolchoicesign.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/schoolchoicesign.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Opponents of school choice worry that public schools will suffer when competition is introduced.* They cite the diversion of money away from public schools and the \u0093creaming\u0094 of the best students into private schools, leaving the neediest children even worse off than before.* But how realistic is this scenario?<\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncpa.org\/pub\/ba699\" >report<\/a> from the National  Center for Policy Analysis marshals powerful evidence that school voucher programs do not hurt students who remain in public schools, and they may even help.<\/p>\n<p>From 1998 to 2008, the Edgewood Voucher Program (EVP) offered private school tuition support to all families in the Edgewood school district, which is located in a low-income section of San Antonio, Texas.* Since EVP was privately funded, no government money was diverted from public schools.* However, large numbers of students did leave the public schools for private ones.* EVP serves as a case study, therefore, on whether public school students suffer when some of their peers transfer away.<\/p>\n<p>The answer is a firm \u0093no.\u0094* Test scores and graduation rates went up in the Edgewood school district during the course of EVP.* Whether these gains were directly caused by EVP is difficult to ascertain, since vouchers were open to all comers rather than subject to a randomized lottery that would have provided the \u0093gold standard\u0094 experiment.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the empirical debate is over whether EVP\u0092s effect on public schools was zero or positive.* When the progress of Edgewood public schools is compared to similar districts that had no voucher program, the data do not plausibly support any negative effect of EVP.<\/p>\n<p>With school choice increasingly looking like a \u0093no lose\u0094 proposition for private and public school students alike, will the Obama administration take notice?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/04\/02\/vouchers-do-not-harm-public-schools\/\" >http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/04\/02\/&#8230;ublic-schools\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 04.02.10 12:00 PM posted by Jason Richwine Opponents of school choice worry that public schools will suffer when competition is introduced.* They cite the diversion of money away from public schools and the \u0093creaming\u0094 of the best students into private schools, leaving the neediest children even worse off than before.* But how realistic is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}