A new report reveals that low-income students who used vouchers to attend private or religious schools in New York showed a slight increase in standardized test scores compared to pupils who remained in public elementary schools. The study, conducted by Harvard University and Mathematica Policy Research, showed that in math and reading, students boosted their scores on average about two percentage points above their peers.
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