Report: 88% of last year’s Ark. voucher recipients didn’t come from public schools

Report: 88% of last year’s Ark. voucher recipients didn’t come from public schools

A new annual report contains more info than in years past, but it’s still impossible to make apples-to-apples comparisons between schools.

Arkansas: 88% of Students Who Use Vouchers Never Attended Public Schools

Long ago, back in the 1990s, the idea of vouchers was proposed as a brand new idea. Its advocates said that vouchers would “save poor kids trapped in failing public schools.” They presented themselves as champions of poor and needy kids and predicted that vouchers would change the lives of these children for the better. Eminent figures proclaimed that school choice was “the civil rights issue” of our time. Of course, as many writers have explain…