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They found voucher students were 21 percent more likely to graduate high school, and declared the program was «one of the most effective urban dropout prevention programs yet witnessed.»

The Milwaukee study found increased high school degree and college persistence with voucher students, while the DC study found voucher students had increased high school graduation.

(We don't know what the long - term effects of vouchers are, though a study of DC found voucher students graduated at higher rates.)

Similarly, in Louisiana, research after the first and second years of the program found voucher students performed worse than their public school counterparts, but after three years, performance was roughly similar across both groups.

The CTBA report ignores entirely previous research from the Brookings Institution, a random - assignment study — the gold standard of social science research — that found voucher students in Milwaukee scored six Normal Curve Equivalent points higher than the control group in reading and 11 points higher in math.

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More than 700,000 students in more than 1,200 New York City schools — including large high schools in all five boroughs — would face higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after - school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.

A report released this month by the city's public advocate, Letitia James, found that thousands of students with disabilities who were given the vouchers weren't receiving services to which they were entitled.

Americans» support for using public funds to pay for students to attend private schools apparently was growing even before the U.S. Supreme Court's June decision upholding the Cleveland voucher plan, findings from this year's Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll on public attitudes about education suggest.

From James Coleman's early observational studies of high schools to the experimental voucher evaluations of the past 15 years, researchers have routinely found that similar students do at least as well and, at times, better academically in private schools than in public schools.

While the impact of vouchers on African American students was large, the impact of a voucher offer on the college enrollment rate of Hispanic students was found to be a statistically insignificant 2 percentage points.

The Wolf / Kisida / Rhinesmith survey found that most private schools that opted not to accept voucher students were very concerned about threats to their «independence, character, or identity.»

Previous research has found that the negative impact of student mobility was only a fraction of the negative impact of Louisiana's voucher program.

Henry Levin likewise asserts that «the evaluators found that receiving a voucher resulted in no advantage in math or reading test scores for either [low achievers or students from SINI schools].»

We followed students who participated in a voucher experiment in New York City in the 1990s, and found that African - American students who won a voucher were more likely to go to college than those who were not offered the opportunity.

Paul E. Peterson speaks with Patrick Wolf of the University of Arkansas about his study finding that students in Milwaukee who received vouchers to attend private schools were 2 - 5 percentage points less likely to be accused or convicted of crimes than comparable students who attended public schools.

In fact, there have been seven scientifically valid random - assignment analyses of voucher programs, and all seven found either that all voucher students perform significantly better than their nonvoucher contemporaries, or at least that most of them do (in some studies the results for black students, the majority of participants, are positive, while the results for other students fail to achieve statistical significance).

A study comparing the performance of students using vouchers to attend private school in Milwaukee with students who attend public schools found that students in both groups are exhibiting similar levels of growth.

The debate has reignited with last month's release of the third year LSP reports, which found no statistically significant difference between voucher students and the control group.

Paul E. Peterson, a prominent voucher researcher and a professor of government at Harvard University, found last year that black students using the vouchers...

The Devil Is in the Details of the Latest Supposedly Negative Study of DC's Voucher Program (The Washington Examiner) Marty West's perspective on new findings on vouchers and student performance in DC schools.

In Chile, students are found in four types of schools: elite schools that do not accept vouchers and charge considerably more than the voucher; for - profit voucher schools; nonprofit (usually religious) voucher schools; and municipal schools.

While her primary focus — and the focus of many media reports about her — has been on vouchers, tax credits, and education savings accounts, organizations she has led or helped found have also advanced other reform initiatives, such as accountability for student learning and more - rigorous academic standards.

The Commission, chaired by Dr. Paul Hill of the University of Washington, carefully reviewed the research on the impact of school choice on student achievement and included in its report the following statement: «The most rigorous school choice evaluations that used random assignment... found that academic gains from vouchers were largely limited to the African - American students in their studies.»

The study found that minority students who received a school voucher to attend private elementary schools in 1997 were, as of 2013, 10 percent more likely to enroll in college and 35 percent more likely than their peers in public school to obtain a bachelor's degree.

And contrary to the claim that vouchers hurt public schools, the report found that students at Milwaukee public schools «are performing at somewhat higher levels as a result of competitive pressure from the school voucher program.»

If these children differ from students who won a voucher but failed to use it in ways that are related to student achievement, it could bias our findings.

The 2013 voucher study found that being offered a voucher had the effect of increasing college enrollment for African American students but not for other students.

We find that the offer of a voucher increased college enrollment within three years of the student's expected graduation from high school by 0.7 percentage points, an insignificant impact.

As NPR's Cory Turner reports, the study finds that public school students in Indiana who used a voucher to switch to a private school tended to backslide academically after switching schools, but if the students remained in the private school long enough, their performance improved.

Peterson and Matthew Chingos published a study in the Summer 2013 issue of Education Next, «The Impact of School Vouchers on College Enrollment,» that found that African - American students benefited the most from receiving vVouchers on College Enrollment,» that found that African - American students benefited the most from receiving vouchersvouchers.

«Nine [of the 10] studies find that vouchers improve student outcomes, six that all students benefit and three that some benefit and some are not affected,» he writes.

A recent study of Milwaukee's older and larger voucher program found that 94 % of students who stayed in the program throughout high school graduated, versus just 75 % of students in Milwaukee's traditional public schools.

The Institute of Education Sciences study headed up by Patrick Wolf found students more likely to graduate from voucher schools in Washington, D. C. Kevin Booker, Tim R. Sass, Brian Gill and Ron Zimmer found the same for charter schools in Chicago and Florida.

We find that vouchers have a moderately large, positive effect on the achievement of African - American students, but no discernible effect on the performance of students of other ethnicities.

One study published in the Summer 2013 issue of Education Next found that vouchers significantly boosted college enrollment rates for African American students.

Instead she claims that the similar Milwaukee finding of higher educational attainment from vouchers is questionable because «75 % of the students who started in a voucher school left before graduation.»

We found that that college enrollments for low - income, African American students who used a voucher to go to private elementary school increased by24 percent.

Using an experimental design, the study found no clear effects of using a voucher to enroll in a private school on students» test scores four years later.

For instance, a 2015 study of a privately funded voucher program in New York City found that being offered a voucher to attend a private school increased college enrollment rates among black and Hispanic students by 4.4 percentage points, a 10 percent gain relative to the control group, and also increased bachelor's degree completion rates among black and Hispanic students by 2.4 percentage points, a 27 percent gain.

We found that low - income students who used a voucher to enroll in a private school in ninth grade subsequently graduated from high school, enrolled in a four - year college, and persisted in college at rates that were 4 — 7 percentage points higher than statistically similar Milwaukee students who started in public schools in ninth grade.

The study, «The Louisiana Scholarship Program,» by Anna J. Egalite and Jonathan N. Mills, finds that the transfers resulting from the LSP vouchers statewide «overwhelmingly improve integration in the public schools students leave (the sending schools), bringing the racial composition of the schools closer to that of the broader communities in which they are located.»

A 2013 study found that students using vouchers to attend private schools, 70 percent of whom were black, were 5 percent more likely to enroll in a four - year college after graduating than were a carefully matched sample of students in Milwaukee public schools.

Yet the evaluation also found that using a voucher improved students» chances of graduating by as much as 21 percentage points.

We find Deb O'Shea, St. Pat's principal, who withstands criticism about her school's decision to accept voucher students, arguing that it has changed the school for the better.

The main findings were not affected when the study estimated different kinds of models and made the sample larger by including students that became eligible for a voucher in any year after the program initially started in 2007.

In Ohio, the findings were positive: The introduction of voucher competition modestly improved the outcomes of students who remained in their public schools — in the range of one - eighth of the magnitude of the black - white test - score gap.

School choice researchers are finding that vouchers may impact student test scores and later attainment outcomes in different ways.

Only one study, conducted by Jay Greene and Marcus Winters and focusing on the D.C. voucher program, found that voucher competition had no effect on the test scores of non-participants, while no empirical study of acceptable rigor has found that a U.S. private - school - choice program decreased the achievement of public school students.

Our findings also speak only to the achievement gains of students using vouchers to switch to a private school in grades 5 — 8.