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04/24/2004: "Vouchers in Milwaukee"

From Crooked Timber's Vouchers in Milwaukee post, via Dr. Cowen:

Caroline Minter Hoxby has just published a paper (available, like all her papers, free at her website) in the Swedish Economic Policy Review claiming that the performance of Milwaukee’s public schools (measured in terms of test scores per dollar of spending) improved quite dramatically during the heat of the battle over vouchers (in the late 90’s), and that the gains of that time do not seem to have fallen back (though they have plateaued).

Her study is not without detractors (follow the Crooked Timber link), and her biases seem to match my own (that school choice is good). So even if this not the be-all and end-all of school choice links, I think it's worth following.