Economics & Inequality Retirement Security Education Health Care Homeland Security Election Reform Media & Politics International Affairs TCF Project Sites: Donate to TCF Join our Listserv  Taking Note Home About TCF News Room Join our Listserv The Problem of Taking Private School Voucher Programs to Scale The Next Issue in the Voucher Wars     Email    Printer-Friendly Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 6/27/2002 Download in PDF format The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to permit public funding of vouchers to private religious schools is likely to energize proponents to vastly increase both the number and size of voucher programs. But, ironically, expansion may finally bring to light a central flaw of voucher programs: their ostensible pilot-level successes cannot be replicated when taken to scale. Even if it is true, as voucher proponents claim, that small voucher programs for low-income children increase the achievement of African American students, the best evidence suggests that if those programs were expanded to include much larger numbers of low-income students, the benefits would quickly fade away. Edition: paper    ISBN: RK06272002    Pages: 8    Price: Free Copyright 2010 The Century Foundation. Privacy Policy NY Office: 41 East 70th Street—New York, New York—10021—Phone:212-535-4441—212-879-9197 DC Office: 1333 H Street, NW—10th Floor— Washington, D.C. 20005— Phone: 202-387-0400— Fax: 202-483-9430