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Why School Choice is the Civil Rights Issue of Our Time
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Black parents' support for school vouchers is about 80% (see here). That level of support rises to 90 - 95% in school districts where voucher programs are available. Why do so many Black parents support school vouchers, when so many Democrat politicians oppose them? The answer is obvious. They support school vouchers because they recognize that it is their child's education at stake, and getting into a voucher program may be their child's only option of getting a decent education. Many urban public schools who have a majority of minority students have been bad public schools for 50 plus years. Every election Democrats, who almost exclusively run the local governments where these schools are, have promised that if elected then within 10 years the schools will be decent. Over a half a century of these promises have been made and still many urban schools are failed schools. For example, 40% of all Baltimore public high schools have 0 students on grade level. Yet Baltimore spends $22,424 per student, and is one of the highest per student spending rates in the country, while the voucher schools in Baltimore receive just $3,248 per student,
How are voucher schools doing compared to their public school counterparts in the same neighborhoods? Much better. Voucher schools have been shown to increase test scores in most studies, and the only federal voucher program increased the graduation rate by 21%, in DC. the same was found by the liberal Urban Institute:
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Interestingly, 68 out of 74 studies found that voucher schools have positive fiscal effects on public schools. Its easy to understand why. The cost of a voucher is usually less than half of the cost to educate a child in public school. That extra money stays with the public school - increasing the overall amount spent per child.
Also interesting to note is that in failing public school districts, just having a voucher school in the district caused the overall test scores and kids on grade level rate of public school students to increase.
We can all understand how it benefits teacher's unions to oppose school choice - private school teachers make far less than public school ones do. And we can all understand why it is in Democrat politicians, who receive massive amounts of election funding from teacher unions, to oppose school vouchers. But how does it help that Black child chained to a bad public school to remain trapped there? As liberal Juan Williams has said, school choice is the civil rights issue of our generation. Educational freedom is essential to helping minority children get a good education now. They can't wait another half century for the public schools to get better.
How are voucher schools doing compared to their public school counterparts in the same neighborhoods? Much better. Voucher schools have been shown to increase test scores in most studies, and the only federal voucher program increased the graduation rate by 21%, in DC. the same was found by the liberal Urban Institute:
An experimental study of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program for the US Department of Education found that using a voucher increased the likelihood of graduating from high school by 21 percentage points, a 30 percent boost (Wolf et al. 2013). In a similarly rigorous experimental evaluation, Chingos and Peterson (2015) reported that participating in the New York City private-school scholarship program had no significant impact on attainment for the full sample of participants but increased college enrollment rates for African American and Hispanic students 6 percentage points, which represented a 10 percent hike. The program also increased those students’ college graduation rates 3.5 percentage points, an increment of 35 percent. In a nonexperimental analysis employing a student-matching approach similar to the one we use here, Chingos and Kuehn (2017) found that participation in the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program increased the student rate of two-year college enrollment 15 to 43 percent, depending on how many years the individual used a scholarship. Cowen and colleagues (2013) analyzed high school graduation and college enrollment of Milwaukee students who were in eighth or ninth grade at the beginning of the study and college persistence for students in ninth grade at baseline. After controlling for a variety of student and parent background factors, MPCP students were 4 to 5 percentage points more likely to graduate from high school and enroll in a four-year college than a matched sample of MPS students.
see full report. Interestingly, 68 out of 74 studies found that voucher schools have positive fiscal effects on public schools. Its easy to understand why. The cost of a voucher is usually less than half of the cost to educate a child in public school. That extra money stays with the public school - increasing the overall amount spent per child.
Also interesting to note is that in failing public school districts, just having a voucher school in the district caused the overall test scores and kids on grade level rate of public school students to increase.
We can all understand how it benefits teacher's unions to oppose school choice - private school teachers make far less than public school ones do. And we can all understand why it is in Democrat politicians, who receive massive amounts of election funding from teacher unions, to oppose school vouchers. But how does it help that Black child chained to a bad public school to remain trapped there? As liberal Juan Williams has said, school choice is the civil rights issue of our generation. Educational freedom is essential to helping minority children get a good education now. They can't wait another half century for the public schools to get better.
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The left will cling for life to the teachers unions and their control of education, including as much control they can keep at the collegiate level, because that's their primary launching platform for extreme woke agendas. That's why everyone's for it but those entities. In my humble opinion.
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