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Reviews outcomes from prior voucher initiatives in Milwaukee, Florida, and other locations, noting at best moderate or modest academic advantages and limited gains in many settings. Highlights mediating factors—religion, race-related school segregation, and lower voucher usage rates—that reduce impacts on low-income families. 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Clive R.Belfield  \nVouchers for K-12 educatincontinue to attract interest,offering thepromise of greater parental choice,enhanced school efficiency,andimproved educational outcomes forstudents.The first formal voucherprogram was established in Milwaukeein 1990,and its practical success wasfollowed by programs in Cleveland,Florida,Colorado,and Washington,  \nD.C.With these prograns has come sus-ained inquiry into vouchers and theiranticipated effects.Here we review theevidence that has accumulated so farabout voucher programs in general,andthen we take a closer look at theCleveland Scholarship Program(CSP)in particular,including its effects onstudent test scores.  \nOhio plans onintroducing a CSP-likeprogram in 2006 at the lowest-perform-ing schools across the state.Evidence onthe eflicacy of the CSP program is there-fore critical,both for the direct develop-ment of policy in Ohio and for voucherinitiatives in other states.  \n■ Research to Date on Vouchers  \nVoucher programs are expected to raisestudents'academic achievement,and themost high-profile research on vouchershas looked at whether they do.The evi-dence shows,at best,moderate advan-tages for voucher participants.  \nFor the Milwaukee Program,Rouse(1998)found small but positive effect-size differences for math but no effectfor reading.However,the data werefrom the first five years of the program;religious schools were not participating.and the voucher students were concen-trated in a few schools.For the Florida  \n# Vouchers and the Cleveland ScholarshipProgram:Little Progress So Far\n\nprogram,Figlio and Rouse(2005)foundmodest results from data on over180,000 students.Voucher users ininitially low-performing schools do posthigher test scores,but much of this isattributable either to student characteris-tics (that is,the users were self-selected,high-ability students)or teaching to thehigh-stakes test(suggesting that theachievement gains may not have beengenuine cognitive gains).  \nRandomized field trials for vouchers inthree cities found small test score gainsafter three years (Howell and Peterson.2002).These treatment effects wereprimarily for African Americans in onesctting,with no evidence of cumulativegains for those who used the voucher forthe longest periods.Finally,it is worthnoting that new evidence fromexpandedpublic school choice points to the sameconclusion,with few achievement gainsfrom placement in a choice school(Cullen et al.,2005).  \nOther studies have investigated broaderquestions,such as:How do parentschoose schools when vouchers are avail-able to them?In what ways are privateschools acessed by voucher studentsbetter than public schools?How dovouchers influence public finances?  \nIn looking at school-choice decisions byparents,it is clear that many affuentfamilies already have choices;attentiontherefore focuses on how voucher pro-grams might open up choices for thosefamilies that are constrained.Thus far,all voucher programs have been targetedto low-income families or to districtswith low-performing schools.Clearlyvouchers expand the choices of low-income families.  \nVoucher programs are intended to raisethe academic achievement of students,but,unfortunately,so far the evidencesuggests that Cleveland's voucher stu-dents perform no better than theircounterparts in public schools.  \nHowever,several mediating factors meantha voucher programs are less effectivein promoting choice among low-incomefamilies than is implicit in a simple read-ing of the program cligibility rules.First,religion pervades family preferencesof schools(Campbell et al.,2005).Cer-tainly,parents value high test scores,butpreferences are varied,and many fami-lies choose their neighborhood school  \nSecond,race has a strong inlluence onpcople's choice of school.The relation-ship is complicated by different patternsacross Hispanic and Arican Americanchildren and by the fact that publicschools show strong patterns of racialsegregation.However,vouchers consis-tently lead to greater student seg","cbCaisFA2tJ8enAP","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisFA2tJ8enAP","pdf",1300018,"English","# Research to Date on Vouchers\n## Evidence on Voucher Effects\n## Choice Decisions and Mediating Factors\n## Supply and Efficiency of Private Schooling","[{\"question\":\"What does existing research suggest about voucher programs’ impact on student achievement?\",\"answer\":\"Overall evidence indicates, at best, moderate advantages for voucher participants, with many studies finding only small or modest gains and limited cumulative effects.\"},{\"question\":\"Why may voucher programs be less effective for low-income families than eligibility rules imply?\",\"answer\":\"The document points to mediating factors such as religion influencing school preferences, race affecting school choice and reinforcing segregation, and low voucher usage rates relative to offer rates.\"},{\"question\":\"What do studies find about private schools participating in voucher 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