The Cost of Choice

Politicians promised the Louisiana Scholarship Program, also known as the state's school voucher 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.

'The Cost of Choice' is the result of a reporting collaboration between NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, WVUE Fox 8 News, WWNO and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting.

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