(Agudath Israel)The Ohio Department of Education just released important data related to the EdChoice Scholarship Program. In the past, critics inaccurately compared scholarship student performance to the performance data for the entire public school district, which included the many high-performing public schools. However, the EdChoice Scholarship program is only available to students who attended or would be assigned to a “low-performing” public school. The only accurate way to analyze the data is to compare scholarship students’ performance to those of students in those “low-performing” schools. As predicted, the new data showed that scholarship students generally out-performed students in their comparison group, in some cases by significant margins.
The new results are available for any participating private school as long as 10 or more scholarship students took the state assessment in that grade. In addition to the many important philosophical and practical arguments for expanding EdChoice, this data highlights the significant academic benefits of school vouchers. To view the data click here.
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