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Posted on: February 23, 2017 at 13:46:04 CT

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Students in the program were predominantly black and from low-income families, and they came from public schools that had received poor ratings from the state department of education, based on test scores.

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School choice and vouchers...more bad than good. - MrBlueSky MU - 2/23 13:40:54

As probably the only one with experience in this topic I can - DHighlander KC - 2/23 14:26:27

I would like to see the underlying data(nm) - tman KC - 2/23 14:03:20

Why do you hate giving the poor a choice? - RHAYWORTH MU - 2/23 13:53:04

This is such a fallacy. - tjwheeler UI - 2/23 14:28:43

Charter school I taught at was over 97% AA and was - DHighlander KC - 2/23 14:33:46

The system fails because of parents - JayHoaxH8r MU

- 2/23 14:58:45

Here's something I've wondered about on that choice. - GA Tiger MU - 2/23 14:01:40

It's hard to demonize parents and actually get them to - MrBlueSky MU - 2/23 14:02:32

Or parent, as the case may be. And one of the problems. - GA Tiger MU - 2/23 14:07:06

The poor can't use the vouchers. - Rabbit Test MU - 2/23 14:00:00

Of course, you know better than they do, right rabbit? - RHAYWORTH MU - 2/23 14:02:29

Why not? - Spanky KU - 2/23 14:02:03

Correct me if I'm wrong..but the voucher plan would give - MrBlueSky MU - 2/23 14:03:45

You are wrong. - Spanky KU - 2/23 14:17:29

That won't get a rural kid - Rabbit Test MU - 2/23 14:10:00

Why? - Spanky KU - 2/23 14:18:12

They average how much?(nm) - Rabbit Test MU - 2/23 14:03:35

If it's at the expense of the students' learning and it - MrBlueSky MU - 2/23 13:54:43

Point of order - Rabbit Test MU - 2/23 14:00:47

Sorry, you are correct. The failing schools in urban/rural - MrBlueSky MU - 2/23 14:01:54

Ding. - Rabbit Test MU - 2/23 14:11:01

"failure of public schools" is an axiom at this point - 90Tiger MU - 2/23 13:58:35

Why not - Rabbit Test MU - 2/23 14:02:53

I'm not arguing that it should be managed at the federal - MrBlueSky MU - 2/23 13:59:28

The continued failure of schools, led by people like you? - RHAYWORTH MU - 2/23 13:58:00

Education is certainly long past due for a revolutionary - MrBlueSky MU - 2/23 14:01:07

education isn't a governmental responsibility; never should - 90Tiger MU - 2/23 14:06:35

How do schools get built if not by a government? - MrBlueSky MU - 2/23 14:09:13

How do walmarts get built, if not by government? who - 90Tiger MU - 2/23 14:18:00

So all schools should be private? - MrBlueSky MU - 2/23 14:18:47

Schools are just a service. There's nothing inherent - 90Tiger MU - 2/23 14:24:10

That story was all over the place.... - Spanky KU - 2/23 13:46:56

The NYT article was published today - MrBlueSky MU - 2/23 13:57:01

and just as many studies show the exact opposite - Spanky KU - 2/23 14:03:27

why is govt involved in education and more specifically - 90Tiger MU - 2/23 13:46:36

Get the feds out of education... - Spanky KU - 2/23 13:47:43

Get all gvmt out of education - pickle MU

- 2/23 14:45:43

It is in the Constitutions of every single state - Spanky KU - 2/23 14:57:29

so change those constitutions and education is not - 90Tiger MU - 2/23 15:10:45

IT begins at home. - Coors4bob MU - 2/23 13:46:04

Talented STEM teachers are not teaching for half salaries - catbirdseat MU

- 2/23 13:44:03

Pretty simple solution - pickle MU

- 2/23 13:43:00

no thanks - GODZILLA MU - 2/23 13:55:16