The verdict on vouchers: funded by the right and lent credence by the Harvard name, a series of studies were aimed at proving the worth of school-voucher programs. The irony? The numbers simply don't add up.(Educating America)
American Prospect, The, February, 2004 by Yglesias, Matthew
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SCHOOL VOUCHERS ARE UNCOMFORTABLE FOR MANY liberals. Potential worries abound: Such programs could constitute massive de facto government financing of religion; they could also strip public schools of vital resources, and leave them stuck with the hardest-to-teach children while private schools skim the most promising students. Any large-scale voucher program, moreover, would inevitably wind up giving money to parents who would have enrolled their children in private schools anyway, thus depriving the public sector of funds in order to subsidize relatively affluent parents.
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