For many years, the Wall Street Journal has been a champion for vouchers in its editorial columns. Its news columns, however, are written by reporters who (usually) don’t have a rightwing agenda to sell. The WSJ posted an article about vouchers in Milwaukee, the nation’s longest running voucher program.
The bottom line is that they don’t make a difference. Voucher students do no better than students in public schools.
But there is an exception, as voucher advocate Patrick Wolf of the Walton-funded University of Arkansas Department of Educational Reform explains. When high-end voucher schools limit the number of voucher students they take and are willing to subsidize the large difference between their tuition and the state payment, the students benefit. How many private and religious schools are willing to do that? As the article says, the vast majority of voucher schools have large numbers of voucher students and rely on low tuition to survive, and they fill their poorly resourced schools with voucher students.
Read the article here.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
“It’s news columns, however, are written by reports who don’t have a rightwing agenda to sell.”
Ha ha ha!
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https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2015/08/11/its-not-just-the-editorial-page-study-finds-wsj/204855
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I would like to know how many quality private schools are willing to accept students with vouchers only. More than likely the voucher goes to a low performing, often science denying Christian school, of dubious value. This low quality explains why most vouchers are about a valuable as burning public cash. Most of these students would have been better off to stay in their public schools which are much more efficient and effective. The public schools would have been better off as well as they would be more able to offer a greater variety of courses and help to students. Expanding vouchers has little to no academic value while it undermines the public asset of public education. Voucher mania is a political strategy to harm public schools as vouchers do not provide academic value. Since vouchers have no legitimate benefit to students, they should be abandoned as any type of educational remedy.
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So vouchers work best when schools can cherry pick their students and only take a few of the kids who require the most resources to educate, leaving the rest in underfunded schools. Well this is definitely a good plan to improve education!
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Vouchers work best when used by the same very poor students that wealthy private schools offer full tuition scholarships to. And in other news, the sky is blue.
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What was already known, that something like 2/3 middle and up plus 1/3 low income mix, was successful in raising all boats, can be recognized now that the representative of the one percent has spoken.
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“License to Acknowledge the Obvious”
The one percent have spoken
The sky is really blue
The burning fire is smokin’
And water’s “agua” too
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After insisting for years that “you can’t solve the problems in education by throwing money at them” the pro-voucher crowd now insists that they need more money…
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