teapartysamurai
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According to an evaluation released yesterday by the US Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences, the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) has significantly improved students chances of graduating from high school. The same study finds that parents had higher satisfaction and rated schools as safer if their child was offered or used an OSP scholarship.
With these dramatic success indicators, it must be no surprise that DC OSP is the only federal education program that the Obama Administration is intent on killing.
Dr. Matt Ladner, vice president of research at the Goldwater Institute reports:
students who were randomly selected to receive vouchers had an 82% graduation rate. Thats 12 percentage points higher than the students who didnt receive vouchers. Students who actually used their vouchers had graduation rates that were 21% higher. Even better, the subgroup of students who received vouchers and came from designated Schools in Need of Improvement (SINI schools) had graduation rates that were 13 percentage points higher than the same subgroup of students who werent offered vouchersand the effect was 20 percentage points higher for the SINI students who used their vouchers!
Thats right. Students who used their voucher to attend a school of their parents choice had a 21 percent higher graduation rate than those who were eligible for a voucher but were not offered one in the lottery process. DC OSP is a federally-funded program that provides scholarships up to $7,500 to low-income families in Washington, DC a pittance compared to DC Public School spending.
Government Study Confirms What We Already Knew: DC Vouchers Improve Graduation Rates - Big Government
Another example of what I say about liberalism, is an eternal battle against the patently obvious. EVERYONE knows that public school education is mediocre at best, but liberals will protest way too much against that. The answer more money! More money!
ANY answer besides pouring more money down the black hole of public education is met with hysterical vitriol.
So, here's another reason for liberals to go NUTS. Even the government now admits vouchers improves education.
Watch the rationalizations fly. They can start now!