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The Effects of the Louisiana Scholarship Program on Student Achievement after Two Years

This paper examines the experimental effects of using an LSP scholarship to enroll in a private school on student achievement in the first two years following the program’s expansion.

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The Effects of the Louisiana Scholarship Program on Student Achievement after Two Years

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by Jonathan N. Mills, Patrick J. Wolf

How Has the Louisiana Scholarship Program Affected Students after Two Years?

The Louisiana Schol­ar­ship Pro­gram (LSP) is a statewide ini­tia­tive offer­ing pub­licly-fund­ed vouch­ers to enroll in local pri­vate schools to stu­dents in low-per­form­ing schools with fam­i­ly income no greater than 250 per­cent of the pover­ty line. Ini­tial­ly estab­lished in 2008 as a pilot pro­gram in New Orleans, the LSP was expand­ed statewide in 2012. This paper exam­ines the exper­i­men­tal effects of using an LSP schol­ar­ship to enroll in a pri­vate school on stu­dent achieve­ment in the first two years fol­low­ing the program’s expan­sion. Down­load How Has the Louisiana Schol­ar­ship Pro­gram Affect­ed Students?, a pol­i­cy brief by Jonathan N. Mills, Anna J. Egalite, and Patrick J. Wolf that sum­ma­rizes the four Tech­ni­cal Reports on the affects of the Louisiana Schol­ar­ship Program. 

This study was pub­lished in Edu­ca­tion­al Eval­u­a­tion and Pol­i­cy Analy­sis in Feb­ru­ary of 2017.

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