Answer to question: Of course not!
Count on the Friedman Foundation to prove that the world really is flat, despite what you may have heard. Sure enough, FF claims that vouchers lead to more integration, despite reams of evidence and research showing that vouchers and school choice increase segregation unless policies are in place to prevent it.
Here is a careful, research-based refutation of the Friedman Foundation’s assertions. There was a reason that Southern politicians supported school choice when they fought the Brown decision, and it wasn’t because they wanted integrated schools.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Another report from a belief tank “pseudo-research” pretending to be sound scholarship. The NEPC reviews do a great job of deconstructing reports that have the trappings of research with the meticulous care that is usually required for peer-reviewed research. I noticed that the Friedman Foundation offes many graphic devices to highligh key points in this tome, like Cliff notes or talking points, basically “cherry picked charter research for dummies.”
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error– should be without the meticulous
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Jeb Bush’s education plan makes no specific mention of existing public schools.
It is literally ALL vouchers and charters, except where he makes a pitch for schools to purchase more ed tech product:
Click to access education-background.pdf
Ed reform is proceeding as if public schools are already gone. The only specific mention of public schools is preceded by the word “failed”.
This is perfectly acceptable in elite ed reform circles. Incredibly, we now have national politicians who are running on completely eliminate existing public schools from any consideration, support or even mention.
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Unfortunately, we have national politicians who are running on completely privatizing pretty much everything that used to be a public responsibility, and for the public good.
They want to privatize public schools (and they are succeeding, step by step, in many states and districts). They have privatized many prisons. They want to privatize Medicare and Social Security.
And on and on and on.
It seems as though too many of them have channeled Ayn Rand. To the detriment of the public good.
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