Vouchers Found to Lower Test Scores in Washington Schools

Students who were not selected for vouchers fared better academically.

For more than a decade, House Republicans led by the former Speaker John A. Boehner have used school children in the nation’s capital as an experiment for school choice, funding a far-reaching voucher program to send poor children to private schools over the opposition of local teachers and unions.

By ERICA L. GREEN

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