Friday, July 21, 2006
You're Doing a Heckuva Job, Maggie
So apparently the Secretary of Education is also useless. This Daily Kos article seems to get it pretty right and has good pointers. In short the Secretary of Education went to Congress asking for $100 million for a school voucher program. The problem is, 4 days prior her Department published a study showing there wasn't an appreciable difference in test scores of public v private school students.
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The Secretary was asking for $100M to fund a voucher program for children in specific underperforming schools. However, the Dep't of Education study was for a national study for nationwide private and public schools. To say this study undermines the case for school vouchers would be analogous to saying that Katrina victims didn't need help because the average weather in the U.S. during the storm was sunny.
A more relevant study would have been to compare results of private and public schools in the same areas, and scores of students who had transfered from public to local private school.
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