Vouchers and Low-Income: Reality Check

Jay Greene:

Have school vouchers moved away from their historic focus on low-income students? The political hacks at the Center on Education Policy think so. And as we know, whenever CEP weighs in, that's reason enough to check the facts.

Paul DiPerna of the Friedman Foundation did a headcount and found that as of now:

11 of 17 existing voucher programs have no income limits

7 of these are statewide special-needs programs (FL, GA, LA, OHx2, OK & UT), 3 have geographic caps (ME, VT & OH) and one has a numeric cap (CO)

Of the 6 programs with income limits, 5 have limits that are above 200% of the poverty line

What do you know? CEP is right!

Posted by Jim Zellmer at November 11, 2011 1:01 AM
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