Louisiana Scholarship Program

The Cost Of Choice: How Louisiana's Voucher Program Steered Families Into D and F Private Schools

By & Kim Chatelain & Lee Zurik & Cody Lillich • May 7, 2019
Resurrection of Our Lord school in New Orleans East has 94 percent voucher students.
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Politicians promised the Louisiana Scholarship Program would offer low-income students a way out of bad public schools. Instead, the program steered families into low-performing private schools with little oversight. 

Study Shows Louisiana School Voucher Program Hurt Math Scores

By • Apr 23, 2019
Orleans Parish officials say this is the fourth year of stagnant or declining test scores.
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Participating in the state’s school voucher program leads to worse performance on state tests in math, according to the latest study on the Louisiana Scholarship Program.