School voucher programs hurt students, writes Joshua Cowen
What explains these extraordinarily large voucher-induced declines? Aren’t private schools supposed to be elite educational opportunities? When it comes to private schools accepting voucher payments, the answer is clearly no. That’s because elite private schools with strong academics and large endowments often decline to participate in voucher plans. Instead the typical voucher school is
, sub-prime private provider often jumping at the chance for a tax bailout to stay open a few extra years.since the program’s inception in 1990. And that includes the large number of pop-up schools opening just to cash in on the new voucher pay-out. For those pop-up schools, average survival time is just 4 years before their doors close for good.
Here’s another problem: for most students, using a voucher is a temporary choice to begin with. In states that have reported data on the question–
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