The Louisiana Scholarship Program

Autor/inn/en	Egalite, Anna J.; Mills, Jonathan N.
Titel	The Louisiana Scholarship Program
Quelle	In: Education Next, 14 (2014) 1, S.66-69 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1539-9664
Schlagwörter	Scholarship Funds; Desegregation Litigation; School Choice; Educational Vouchers; Transfer Students; Racial Integration; Program Effectiveness; Private Schools; Public Schools; African American Students; Hispanic American Students; White Students; School Districts; Low Income Groups; Louisiana + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bundesausbildungsförderungsgesetz; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Educational voucher; Bildungsgutschein; Hochschulwechsel; Schulwechsel; Studienortwechsel; Rassenintegration; Private school; Privatschule; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Hispanoamerikaner; School district; Schulbezirk
Abstract	The Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP), also known as the Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence Program, provides public funds for low-income students in low-performing public schools to enroll in local private schools. The program was initially piloted in New Orleans in 2008; Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal and the state legislature expanded the LSP statewide in 2012, allowing thousands of public school students to transfer out of their residentially assigned schools and into private schools of their choosing. The program has recently come under fire from the U.S. Department of Justice, which has filed a lawsuit alleging the program is impeding federal school-desegregation efforts initiated in the 1970s. The authors of this article provide data from five sources on the school choices made by many voucher recipients, which enables them to study the program's likely effects on the racial makeup of Louisiana schools. The analysis reveals that the vouchers used by the subset of recipients for whom information is available have supported public-school desegregation efforts. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10