If President Donald Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos get a national voucher program approved by Congress, it could be a crippling if not fatal blow to many of the small and medium-size school districts around the country, according to a new Center for American Progress report.

The left-leaning Washington think tank issued a report last Friday, “Vouchers Are Not a Viable Solution for Vast Swaths of America,” that examined the impact of a nationwide voucher program on three different classifications of districts based on the number of schools. In 85 percent of the 11,200 districts the report considered (excluding regional education agencies and charter schools), specifically those where there are eight or fewer schools, vouchers are either “highly unlikely” to work or “may not work,” the report…

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