Might have to rethink school vouchers | by GlennM
Tierney has a piece in today's NYTimes about the Florida Supreme Court case on school vouchers.
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Well, the public system did lose $4,400, but that's actually $1,000 less than the cost of educating the average student and there was one pupil fewer to teach.
As enrollment has dropped at Edison, the student-to-teacher ratio has improved to about 22 from about 30.
The federal program merely guarantees students at bad schools a chance to transfer to other public schools. That prospect doesn't spur improvement in test scores, the study found, probably because it's not much of a threat to public school officials. ... Vouchers threaten to shrink the system ...