Given that Indiana is spending nearly $500 million on taxpayer-funded vouchers, you’d think the state’s public schools are a shambolic testament to government futility. The latest IREAD results tell a different story. This year’s unprecedented jump in third-grade literacy is a testament to the persistence and skill of public educators who keep delivering despite being maligned by the state’s supermajority.

Levan Scott Academy, part of Fort Wayne Community Schools, is a case in point. Serving many students from low- income households and homes where English is a second language, its third graders posted a 90.3% passage rate — above the state’s passage rate of 87%. Scott’s year-over-year gain of 32 percentage points was among the district’s largest, rivaled only by Study Elementary’s 38-poi

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