There's a big voucher war going on in Utah now, so the Salt Lake Tribune goes local on today's study from the Center on Education Policy.  The study finds "low-income students from urban public high schools generally did as well academically and on long-term indicators as their peers from private high schools, once key family background characteristics were considered." 

Yikes!  You mean private schools aren't magical and vouchers won't help kids learn?  What's a voucher advocate to do? Well, apparently what today's parents really want is not good schools but something else entirely.  A spokesperson for an association of private schools told the Tribune: "The private school advantage is nimbleness."

Quick, can someone do a study comparing the nimbleness of charter schools, private schools and public schools?  And don't forget to control for parent's agility, gymnastics background, and Pilates course-taking.  We need data!