Comments on: Ohio Gov. Signs Budget Creating Statewide School Voucher Program http://hispanicpundit.com/2005/06/30/ohio-gov-signs-budget-creating-statewide-school-voucher-program/ Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:18:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: HispanicPundit http://hispanicpundit.com/2005/06/30/ohio-gov-signs-budget-creating-statewide-school-voucher-program/#comment-11936 HispanicPundit Fri, 01 Jul 2005 04:01:49 +0000 http://hispanicpundit.com/2005/06/30/ohio-gov-signs-budget-creating-statewide-school-voucher-program/#comment-11936 Yeah, I don't know much about Taft, that was more of a off the cuff remark. Vouchers to me is so damn important, that even if a politican was likely to get vouchers across, yet completely go against my views on every single other issue, I'd probably still vote for him. As far as poor performing public schools, the experience seems to be very positive. In fact, vouchers seem to cause the most improvements to precisely <em>those very schools</em>. Caroline Huxby, an economist at Harvard University, writes <a href="http://hispanicpundit.com/?p=823" rel="nofollow">this</a>: <blockquote>Public schools do respond constructively to competition, by raising their achievement and productivity. The best studies on this question examine the introduction of choice programs that have been sufficiently large and long-lived to produce competition. Students’ achievement generally does rise when they attend voucher or charter schools. The best studies on this question use, as a control group, students who are randomized out of choice programs. Not only do currently enacted voucher and charter school programs not cream-skim; they disproportionately attract students who were performing badly in their regular public schools.</blockquote> Yeah, I don’t know much about Taft, that was more of a off the cuff remark. Vouchers to me is so damn important, that even if a politican was likely to get vouchers across, yet completely go against my views on every single other issue, I’d probably still vote for him.

As far as poor performing public schools, the experience seems to be very positive. In fact, vouchers seem to cause the most improvements to precisely those very schools.

Caroline Huxby, an economist at Harvard University, writes this:

Public schools do respond constructively to competition, by raising their achievement and productivity. The best studies on this question examine the introduction of choice programs that have been sufficiently large and long-lived to produce competition. Students’ achievement generally does rise when they attend voucher or charter schools. The best studies on this question use, as a control group, students who are randomized out of choice programs. Not only do currently enacted voucher and charter school programs not cream-skim; they disproportionately attract students who were performing badly in their regular public schools.

]]> By: Michael http://hispanicpundit.com/2005/06/30/ohio-gov-signs-budget-creating-statewide-school-voucher-program/#comment-11933 Michael Fri, 01 Jul 2005 03:41:04 +0000 http://hispanicpundit.com/2005/06/30/ohio-gov-signs-budget-creating-statewide-school-voucher-program/#comment-11933 I agree on the voucher idea. I have not researched it a great deal, but the system as it currently exists does not work, why not give vouchers a try. My concern is that the poor performing public schools will get worse. How can this be addressed? As far as Taft. He will have to overcome the coin collection investment in the Workers Comp plan scandal. I agree on the voucher idea. I have not researched it a great deal, but the system as it currently exists does not work, why not give vouchers a try. My concern is that the poor performing public schools will get worse. How can this be addressed?

As far as Taft. He will have to overcome the coin collection investment in the Workers Comp plan scandal.

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