The Senate Must Save the D C Opportunity Scholarship Program
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North Carolina should nix expansion of failed private school voucher experiment Ryan D. Jayne © Chris Line Ryan D. Jayne
Some North Carolina lawmakers are mistakenly pushing to expand the state’s malfunctioning school voucher program.
An independent report on the voucher scheme has revealed widespread problems, and expanding it, as companion bills in the House and Senate propose to do, will only make matters worse, while taking even more money from public schools.
This report, published by Duke University’s Children’s Law Clinic, found that the state has spent more than $150 million on its voucher program (all money that otherwise would have gone to public schools). The return on this investment is nonexistent, since the scheme “is poorly designed … to promote better academic outcomes for children,” and there is very little accountability behind the funding given to private schools. The money is simply gone, with no clear benefit to students