Interesting Facts

• Voucher advocates often claim that private school education is cost effective because these schools can educate children for less money, BUT in Milwaukee, analyses indicate that voucher schools received about $1,000 more per student than comparable public schools.
• In Cleveland, the voucher program's intent was to serve low-income families, BUT a special state audit found that 30 students with household incomes of up to $80,000 had received vouchers and that program officials had not verified that voucher students actually lived in the Cleveland school district.
• In New Zealand, where a system very similar to vouchers was instituted, officials are looking at returning to the more traditional neighborhood school system because segregation has reached an all-time high.