Opinion | School Vouchers Are Great If You Want to Kill Quality Education and Expand Bigotry

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Opinion | School Vouchers Are Great If You Want to Kill Quality Education and Expand Bigotry
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'Using taxpayer money to send your child to a private or parochial school has got nothing to do with getting a quality education.'

But a heck of a lot of them are! —public schools—which cumulatively do a much better job. instead of trying to"save kids" from underfunded public schoolsIt should come as no surprise that removing students from public school and sending them to a private or parochial school doesn't work to help them academically.

It would be much more effective to provide support where students are than make them undergo the trauma of uprooting. standardized test scores are a terrible way to try to assess student learning . And the fact that voucher students tank their tests—by itself—does not prove to me that private and parochial schools provide a substandard education compared to public schools.

It is the surrounding factors—like that most voucher schools don't have to use certified teachers with the same quality degrees as public schools, that they don't have to use the same kind of high-quality curriculum or pass the same kinds of public scrutiny. However, test scores do matter to policymakers. They are using the same test scores to disparage public schools and then in the same breath ignore the scores

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