{"id":190,"date":"2004-04-12T22:55:02","date_gmt":"2004-04-12T22:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=190"},"modified":"2004-04-12T22:55:02","modified_gmt":"2004-04-12T22:55:02","slug":"mps_voucher_program_achievements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"MPS Voucher Program Achievements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/metro\/apr04\/221879.asp\">Sarah Carr writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Milwaukee&#8217;s voucher program prompted sustainable achievement gains for the city&#8217;s public elementary schools, according to a new study by a Harvard economist.<br \/>\nResearcher Caroline Hoxby followed up on a study of three years ago, in which she concluded that the private school choice program pushed the public schools to improve.<br \/>\nIn the new study, she adds test score data from two additional years &#8211; the 2000-&#8217;01 and 2001-&#8217;02 school years &#8211; and finds that the gains were sustained, although they did not accelerate. The study was published in the Swedish Economic Policy Review.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Carr writes: Milwaukee&#8217;s voucher program prompted sustainable achievement gains for the city&#8217;s public elementary schools, according to a new study by a Harvard economist. Researcher Caroline Hoxby followed up on a study of three years ago, in which she concluded that the private school choice program pushed the public schools to improve. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}