Andrew Gelman had a post on public support for school vouchers earlier this week. I held back on a response for a few days, because the Iran thing was occupying my attention and because I'm a little sick of talking about school vouchers. Is there anything new to be said? Maybe. Voucher support may be a proxy for the continuing fault lines about schools and class.

Gelman finds that voucher support is strongest among the very rich and the poor, particularly among Latinos. OK, now we need a little qualitative information to fill in the gaps.

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