Most school-age children are back in classrooms after summer break Their families recently encountered the annual trip to the store to buy new school supplies Terry Stoops John Locke Foundation vice president for research and resident scholar crunches the numbers to determine how much parents teachers and state taxpayers spend to equip kids for a new year of school Advocates of North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship school voucher program recently touted results of a study from N C State University It documented the vouchers' positive large and statistically significant benefits for low-income students Two of the key NCSU researchers assistant professor
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