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Study: DC Opportunity Scholarship Program benefits participants

By Alliance Alert

EducationNews.org: "As the Obama administration and Congress move to phase out Washington DC?s Opportunity Scholarship Program, a new evaluation of the popular voucher plan finds widespread benefits for student participants, including significantly greater high school graduation rates. ... Eighty-two percent of voucher students graduated high school, compared with 70 percent of students who were offered a voucher but chose not to use it, IES researchers found. The overall high-school graduation rate in Washington, DC is around 50 percent." | Full report here.

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 30, 2010 (boomark / email).