Do vouchers really lead to more racially integrated schools?
Let’s put this into perspective. Our nation’s public schools are already largely segregated. In fact, according to Harvard University, “more than 70% of the nation’s black students now attend predominately minority [public] schools.”Moreover, according to data collected by the U.S. Department of Education, “private school students are more likely to be in racially mixed classes than are public school students.”As Manhattan Institute researchers reported, “according to observations of public and private school lunchrooms in two cities, private school students are more likely to sit in racially mixed groups than public school students.” Evidence from the voucher programs in Cleveland and Milwaukee proves this point.Milwaukee According to a study by Marquette University’s Institute for the Transformation of Learning, “adding religious schools has led to substantially more integration in choice schools than in Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) … half of MPS students attended racially isolat
