Private schools with vouchers saw test scores fall

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Private Indiana schools that accepted students from low- to middle-income families using state-funded vouchers last year experienced a fall in their passing rates on the state’s ISTEP test this year, a newspaper’s analysis of test scores shows.

The Journal Gazette of Fort Wayne analyzed the test scores of 189 private schools with voucher students that administered the statewide test and had 2011 data for comparison. The newspaper reported (http://bit.ly/MyZcMU ) Monday that its analysis showed those schools’ passing rate for both math and English fell to 85 percent this year, down from 86 percent the year before.