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Justice Circle Education Brief: Vouchers and School Funding Efforts
The harms that school voucher programs have on students who accept vouchers have been well documented. Research has shown that voucher programs tend to have severe, negative academic impacts on the students who use vouchers to attend private schools. The programs push costs onto voucher families by making them responsible for uncovered tuition costs, transportation, and school meals that are all provided free of charge in inclusive public schools. And vouchers open up such families to unchecked discrimination.
Other research has examined the effect that large-scale voucher programs are having on students in traditional public school systems. Do such programs have negative impacts on school funding or academic outcomes for students who remain in the traditional, inclusive public school system?