Behind the Headline – Evaluation of the Impact of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program: Final Report



By Education Next 06/23/2010

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Evaluation of the Impact of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program: Final Report
June 2010 | U.S. Department of Education

Behind the Headline
 Lost Opportunities
Fall 2009 | Education Next

The final evaluation of the D.C. voucher program finds that the program improved students’ chances of graduating from high school. An article by Patrick Wolf that appeared in Ed Next in 2009 provided an overview of the program and the results of earlier evaluations.




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