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School vouchers expand despite evidence of negative effects

  • Written by Christopher Lubienski, Professor, Indiana University
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, center, signs a bill that creates a new voucher program for thousands of students to attend private schools using taxpayer dollars.Lynne Sladky/AP

For the past couple of decades, proponents of vouchers for private schools have been pushing the idea that vouchers work.

They assert there is a consensus among researchers that...

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