Starke County’s Private School Receives One New Student on Voucher

Weeks after Indiana began the nation’s broadest school voucher program, thousands of students have transferred from public to private schools such as to an all girls catholic school. This has caused a spike in enrollment at some Catholic institutions that were only recently on the brink of closing for lack of pupils.

John Elcesser, Executive Director of the Indiana Non-Public Education Association, said it’s not surprising that Catholic Schools are receiving so many of the vouchers. Most Catholic schools already have state accreditation, which some private schools lack.

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