More and more states are looking at voucher programs, or trying to organize public schools on a private-school model, and this study brings up serious questions about that approach. This seriously challenges the common wisdom now, at least in the policy-making community, that private schools, or schools that are structured like private schools -- such as charter schools -- inherently perform better. |
We could imagine sending our kids to a private school if the circumstances were right. |
We don't think this is the definitive answer on this issue, but I do hope that it would put the brakes on -- at least in people's minds -- about this rush to privately run schools. |