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To: JohnM who wrote (32713)	6/19/2002 10:42:28 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Since I have been complaining about Canadian Health Care here lately, I think it is only fair if I bring up something they are doing right that we might do well to import. That is their approach to school choice. A new study from Canada's Fraser Institute and the Freidman Foundation examines the structure and results of voucher-style government support for nonpublic schools in six Canadian provinces. Voucher opponents in the U.S. raise fears that allowing families to choose a school instead of being forced in the district public school would result in a brain drain of the clever and wealth into private institutions, further damaging the educational prospects of the poor. But this study finds that, in Canadian provinces with funding for nonstate schools, low-income children attend private institutions in greater numbers and at higher percentages than in provinces without such state funding. The voucher-providing provinces also show a weaker correlation between socioeconomic status and educational achievement, and boast achievement scores in both public and non-public schools that are not only higher generally, but higher particularly among students from less advantaged backgrounds. (Reason, July 02)