School Choice in New York City After Two Years: An Evaluation of the School Choice Scholarships Program (Interim Report)
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An Evaluation of New York City School Vouchers
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The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
The Spencer Foundation
The Smith Richardson Foundation
The Achelis and Bodman Foundations
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
The Donner Foundation
The Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation
The John M. Olin Foundation
This new two-year study of low-income New York City students in grades 3 to 6 who received vouchers to attend private schools shows no significant difference in test scores between the scholarship group and the control group. It also finds that students performed about the same on standardized reading and mathematics tests in the two groups. The only strong and significant impact registered in reading and mathematics for African American students in grade six—the oldest of the students studied.
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