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State law mandates only a fraction of voucher schools, those with 25 or more voucher recipients, make their test scores public.

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I can send the voucher to you via email for delivery or direct to the recipient via snail - mail for a more personal touch!

What makes Louisiana different from other cities is not just that they are regulating more heavily, but that voucher recipients take the state test, not some off - the - shelf norm - referenced test that is more in line with the ones that private schools normally use.

When Mr. Obama first moved to phase out the D.C. voucher program in 2009, his Education Department was in possession of a federal study showing that voucher recipients, who number more than 3,300, made gains in reading scores and didn't decline in math.

Voucher programs that give recipients the free and independent choice of an array of providers, including faith - based organizations, have a long and established history in Arizona, including six different educational voucher programs that help more than 22,000 students annually attend the public, private or religious school of their choice.

More commonly they funnel students into less selective religious schools and spur the creation of new minority - dominated private schools for voucher recipients, effectively a privatization.

Teske and Schneider note that the existing empirical work on school vouchers is quite positive on a variety of issues: academic considerations appear paramount when parents choose schools; voucher recipients are more satisfied with their schools than their peers within public schools; and vouchers lead to «clear performance gains for some groups of students using the vouchers, particularly blacks, compared with the control group.»

At the time of the NBER study (2012 - 13), more than eight in ten of the more than 6,000 voucher recipients were African - American and the average annual family income of LSP participants was less than $ 18,000, considerably below the income eligibility cap of 250 percent of the federal poverty line ($ 57,625 for a family of four in 2012).

The school is the biggest recipient of all those participating in the state's new Opportunity Scholarship Program, having already received 43 school vouchers totaling more than $ 90,000 dollars in public funds.

Mead says it's unclear how the U.S. Supreme Court would side on states neglecting more stringent discrimination protections, given that the high court's 2002 decision upholding Ohio vouchers in Zelman v. Simmons - Harris stated that voucher recipients can not be defined by religion and that they have a «genuine choice» between religious and non-religious schools.

But five years after the program was established, more than half of the state's voucher recipients have never attended Indiana public schools, meaning that taxpayers are now covering private and religious school tuition for children whose parents had previously footed that bill.

«There were attempts to add more accountability to the Opportunity Scholarship Program, but those efforts failed despite the fact the largest recipient of private school vouchers became ensnared in an embezzlement scandal,» said Poston.