With U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos pushing for a $5 billion tax credit program that would allow states to expand school choice models, including vouchers for private schools, interest in the performance of existing scholarship programs is likely to increase. The Tennessee House of Representatives this week also passed a bill that would create an education savings account program serving up to 5,000 students in the state’s urban areas. The Senate, where a committee approved a similar bill, will now take up the issue.
Evaluations of other voucher initiatives — those in Ohio, the District of Columbia and Indiana — have also found disappointing results among students.
