But even when all students are included in the analysis, African - American students who attended private schools scored significantly
higher than their public school peers (see Figure 2).
Over the last year, critical news articles from national newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post have questioned the quality of education the company offers, pointing out overbilling for ineligible students in Colorado and a Pennsylvania school where virtual students performed significantly
worse than their public school peers.
In one study of a fundamentalist Protestant academy (Bethany Bible Academy), a Jewish intellectual found the Bethany students more tolerant on issues of race, religion and freedom of speech and less concerned with making a lot of
money than their public school peers.
The WaPo reporters then claim, «But a U.S. Department of Education study released in June showed that students in the program generally scored no higher on reading and math tests after two
years than public school peers.»
And Trump's nominee for deputy secretary, Mitchell «Mick» Zais, said that he was «unaware» of research showing that students who received vouchers in states such as Indiana, Louisiana, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., performed worse on
tests than their public school peers.
In fact, Brookings Institution released an article stating that recent research on voucher programs in Indiana and Louisiana found that those students who took advantage of vouchers to attend private school, rather than their local public schools, received lower
scores than their public school peers.
have questioned the quality of education the company offers, pointing out overbilling for ineligible students in Colorado and a Pennsylvania school where virtual students performed significantly
worse than their public school peers.
The result is that African - American students who switched from public to private schools scored, on average, 6.3 points
higher than their public school peers; by contrast, Krueger reports effects of between 9.1 and 9.8 points for African - Americans placed in smaller classes.
Homeschooled students have been shown to have higher average scores on the ACT test (26.5)
than their public school peers (25).
The study also found that voucher students were less likely to be African - American or Latino /
a than their public school peers, that students who exited the program were more likely to be African American or Latino / a than were students who remained in the program, that the majority of voucher students were already attending a private school prior to receiving the voucher, and that
The most vigorous study on the Swedish school voucher system by Stockholm University researchers Anders Böhlmark and Mikael Lindahl concludes that students in non-public (or Independent schools as they are called in Sweden) perform better
than their public school peers both in the short term, with increased test results and grades, and the long term, with higher grades in secondary school and at university.