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A 3 page paper that provides a discussion of school vouchers, including some of the arguments for and against school choice. Conclusions from two research studies are reported. The writer supports the argument for vouchers. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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in test scores are seldom said out loud but veteran educators know the reasons. Such discussions are, in todays vernacular, politically incorrect. Nonetheless, a myriad of policies, strategies and actions
have been offered and tried over the years to improve student achievement. One of those is school vouchers, also referred to as school choice. The arguments for and against vouchers
are most often heated and not always rational. Friel reported that about 33,000 students in Ohio, Michigan and Florida use their states voucher system (Friel, 2004). Some of the
arguments against vouchers include: possible de factor state funding of religious schools (issue: separation of church and state), taking needed resources from public schools, an exodus of the most promising
students from the public schools, paying for some students whose parents would normally enroll their children in private schools anyway, leaving public schools with the hardest-to-teach children (Yglesias, 2004). Arguments
in favor of school vouchers include equality, i.e., providing parents choices only more affluent parents have in choosing their childs educational program, higher achievement is typically found in private schools,
getting children out of poorly-performing schools and overcrowded classrooms (Yglesias, 2004). Roderick Paige, U.S. Department of Education Secretary, commented that school vouchers is about civil rights (Friel, 2004). One school
district that just recently adopted school vouchers was the District of Columbia (Friel, 2004). This program is the first federally funded school voucher program and the district expects 1,700 students
to transfer to private and parochial schools in September (Friel, 2004). In the District, white fourth-grade students score an average of 63 points higher on reading tests that black students
(Friel, 2004). They cannot get a comparative score for 8th graders, however, because white parents who can move out of the District to cities with better schools do so (Friel,
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