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The Problem of Taking Private School Voucher Programs to Scale
The Next Issue in the Voucher Wars
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 6/27/2002

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to permit public funding of vouchers to private religious schools is likely to energize proponents to vastly increase both the number and size of voucher programs. But, ironically, expansion may finally bring to light a central flaw of voucher programs: their ostensible pilot-level successes cannot be replicated when taken to scale. Even if it is true, as voucher proponents claim, that small voucher programs for low-income children increase the achievement of African American students, the best evidence suggests that if those programs were expanded to include much larger numbers of low-income students, the benefits would quickly fade away.

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