The phrase means that students who attend private schools have, on average, higher academic achievement than those who attend public schools.
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Low - income students who used public dollars to attend private schools through the Florida Tax Credit (FTC) scholarship program enrolled in college at higher
rates than their public school counterparts, according to our new study of more than 10,000 FTC participants.
Last Thursday the «non-partisan» Center for Tax and Budget Accountability rolled out a report that slammed vouchers, claiming that there is «no statistical evidence proving that students who use vouchers perform
better than their public school counterparts.»
According to Florida TaxWatch's research *, FLVS saved the State more than $ 1000 per student compared to traditional schools in 2007, and FLVS produced students who earned higher grades and higher test
scores than their public school counterparts.
Students enrolled in the Milwaukee voucher program are more likely to graduate from high school and go to
college than their public school counterparts, boast significantly improved reading scores, represent a more diverse cross-section of the city, and are improving the results of traditional public school students....
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.
Belluck has used his own Twitter handle in recent days to dog the State Education Department over the results of third - through eighth - grade English and math test scores that showed charter school students performing slightly
better than their public school counterparts.
Using data from the Florida Tax Credit (FTC) Scholarship program, we find that low - income Florida students who attended private schools using an FTC scholarship enrolled in and graduated from Florida colleges at a higher rate
than their public school counterparts.
Federal data from the National Center on Education Statistics (NCES) offers a potentially surprising revelation: Private school teachers have higher turnover rates
than their public school counterparts, and it's not particularly close.
A Stanford study, however, found that 83 percent of the time charter schools perform the same or worse
than their public school counterparts.
In fact, the most recent studies of programs in Louisiana and Ohio indicate that voucher students actually perform worse
than their public school counterparts.
Had WILL's conclusions been accurate, they would have contradicted consistent research findings from the last two decades showing Milwaukee voucher students fared worse or no better
than their public school counterparts and several very recent studies showing voucher students throughout the nation faring extremely poorly.
Federal data from the National Center on Education Statistics show that private school teachers have a higher turnover rate
than their public school counterparts, and it's not close.