School Vouchers Work

The D.C. voucher program has recently been dismantled by the Obama Administration, despite data that shows it is more substantially more effective than the D.C. public schools.

What happened, according to a Department of Education study, is that after three years the voucher students scored 3.7 months higher on reading than students who remained in the D.C. schools. In addition, students who came into the D.C. voucher program when it first started had a 19 month advantage in reading after three years in private schools.

Of course, President Obama's children attend a private school in Washington, and Secretary of Education Duncan did not move his family to Washington partly because of the poor schools.

Over and over again those who are supported by teacher's unions refuse to support charter schools and voucher programs, even though the data shows that students who use vouchers show significant gains over those who do not use vouchers.