Maryland Governor Larry Hogan has said he wants to increase the state-funded private school scholarship — or voucher — program known as BOOST from $5 million per year to $10 million over the next three years. Yet data show that the program, which was billed as a way to broaden education options for low-income children, is little more than a subsidy for private schools. Roughly 78 percent of the students who benefited from it last fall — more than 1,900 kids — were already
By Edd Doerr
Jan 17, 2017