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Report says vouchers don't improve performance of Milwaukee students
Feb 26, 2008 11:37 AM
A study 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 researchers' conclusions are based on test results from 2006-07, when they gave a sample of voucher students the same tests given to public school students in Wisconsin. The voucher program allows more than 18,000 Milwaukee children from low-income families to attend private schools, 80 percent of them religious schools.
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