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Politicians said the Louisiana Scholarship Program would improve children’s performance. It has failed to live up to its billing.
McMillian’s First Steps Academy shows how some low-performing schools exist solely because of state voucher subsidies, with little accountability.
The state has approved every private school that sought vouchers.
Find data on grades, enrollment and how much state money has been paid to the state’s private schools.
Dominique Martin was thrilled to get a state-funded voucher to send her daughter to private school. We go to Louisiana to investigate the cost of school choice.
Archdiocese school officials have slowed attrition by tapping into a program that lets parents use state dollars to pay tuition at nonpublic schools.
