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60 Cent Solution Award

Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice for NEPC Review: School Choice by the Numbers: The Fiscal Effect of School Choice Programs 1990-2006 (May 2007)

A May 2007 Friedman report trumpeted its finding that the nation’s "twelve [voucher] programs have saved a total of nearly half a billion dollars" (School Choice by the Numbers: The Fiscal Effect of School Choice Programs 1990 – 2006). Our reviewer, however, noted that even if the report’s flawed calculations were accepted, a savings of a half-billion dollars was "a savings of less than 1/100th of one percent of annual public school spending, or about 60 cents per child per year."