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Do school vouchers improve results? It depends on what we ask

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imageDo school voucher programs help improve educational outcomes?Lower Columbia College (LCC), CC BY-NC-ND

A set of reports on Louisiana’s statewide school voucher program recently revealed a number of important features of that program’s operation and overall performance.

The most startling of these reports indicated that students who used...

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