Vouchers are aid to parents, not schools, and thus are like scholarships. Tax money ends up flowing directly into the school's treasury. Any attempt to claim that this aid to the parents is a ruse. Vouchers are not scholarships. This is a cynical manipulation of language that will not fool the American people.
Vouchers greatly increase student performance.
In fact, the studies have been mixed. Some studies do show a slight gain for voucher students, but it is modest at best and could be the result of other factors, such as increased parental involvement by parents of voucher students. Other studies purporting to show that voucher students outperform their public school counterparts have been conducted by researchers who strongly favor vouchers and have been debunked by objective scholars. In Milwaukee, site of the nation's first voucher plan, several studies showed little difference between the scores of voucher students and public school students on state-mandated tests. Legislators responded not by shutting down the program but by passing a law ending the testing of voucher students.