Private-school vouchers can make a difference for low-income students
“New research shows that the North Carolina Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) may be working for students. N.C. State University recently released a study showing that a small sample of OSP students outperformed a matched sample of public school students in Spring 2017 on a standardized math, reading and language test. The study’s results were ‘positive, large and statistically significant.’ While the study’s limitations prevent the authors from directly attributing the results to the program and restrict those results only to the volunteer OSP students who participated in the study, the outcome suggests that the OSP may be making a real difference in students’ academic performance.”