New Study: Voucher Programs Are Good for Black People
A new study has revealed that black people who go to private schools through voucher programs are much more likely to end up going to college.
The study was done in New York City through a joint effort between the Brookings Institution and Harvard University and it spanned a 15 year time period.
The national director of communications for the American Federation for Children, Malcom Glenn, shared that the results of the study clearly showed that African-American students who use vouchers have a higher likelihood of going to college.
Says, Glenn,
”Most notably is the fact that African-Americans who participated in this voucher program in New York City were 24 percent more likely to enroll in college as a result of receiving a voucher, 31 percent more likely to enroll in a full-time college.
Glenn expressed a desire to see more legislators taking note of how important it is to track the success rates of the voucher programs among their constituents.
Glenn went on to explain,
“We’re very, very strong proponents of strict accountability measures and programs, and oftentimes that goes back to bill design. So, when we’re putting together legislation, and when legislators are considering school choice bills, it’s very important that they put into place at the onset evaluations like this one.”
There have been similar studies with similar results conducted in the states of Wisconsin, Florida and Louisiana where the studies showed an increase in student achievement and also an increase in the satisfaction of parents.
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This is only in a state like NY where the issue of race, really aren’t that big an issue. The successful model applied there would not work in say SC.
This whole website is filled with poorly written, wholly unsubstantiated articles. I feel like some person with an agenda wrote all the articles with funding from right wing source.
I want to know more about the authors and the references. This seems like a made up black conservative page, that is made to show that, “hey look, we exist. Even though in a really small no#.”
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I help develop policies for the magnet, veep, busing, and other programs dealing with school integration in my city. I understand public school, more them just as a k-12 and or college student. The article suggest that vouchers are the answer to POOR CHILDREN ED PROBLEMS. Why don’t we just give every child a voucher,and our problems in education will be solve, end of story. I live in one of america largest city, we don’t have 2000 slots open in the private or so call preforming school,I’am just saying.
Rodney,
I’m an urban public school teacher. Many children would be better served in the private school enviro. because the standards are higher. Period. As for your comment about “right wing” reporting, perhaps you should do some reading about the voucher school movement (and even charter schools for that matter) that HAS to be a reason why the teacher’s unions are so against them. BTW I live in NY and the teachers unions are TOTALLY against programs like this.
“Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people they oppress…because once you are truly educated; you will not ask for power you will take it.” –John Henrik Clarke
Do y’all really beLIEve these caucasoid teachers are TEACHING our children to prosper or TRAINING them to fail?
None of these government ‘training camps’ give a d**n about our children. WE MUST TEACH THEM OURSELVES!!! Teach them their REAL OURstory and stop depending on these ‘training camps’ to teach them the Truth about their GLORIOUS past!
ONCE OUR CHILDREN ARE TAUGHT THEY ARE THE INVENTORS AND CONTRIBUTORS TO WORLD OURstory; THEN THEY WILL GAIN PRIDE IN THEMSELVES AND WILL DEMAND TO BE TAUGHT THE TRUTH.
AND IF IT IS NOT GIVEN TO THEM…THEN THEY MUST TAKE IT!!!
I was a public school educator and administrator for 13 years, but I chose to send my children to a private school in their middle grades (5th through 8th grades) because the public school system in my area was just not academically meeting the needs of my children. One returned to public school in the 8th grade and the other in the 10th grade…worse mistakes of my life. And if I had been wise, I would have continued to allow them to remain in private school until they graduated. I am a strong supporter of vouchers and feel parents should have the right to choose the schools, public or private, they feel are best for their children.