The contours of the school choice debate are by now familiarto public policy students, but a lack of agreement about theappropriate weights to be given to the variables affecting thesubject continues to splinter their ranks. On the surface,there appears to be a consensus that the latest scores onstandardized tests will resolve the uncertainty as to whichtype of education, public or private, is most effective, but adip into the literature quickly dispels any such hope. The onlything clear is that nonpublic schools, even with one financialhand tied behind them, do not perform any more poorly thanpublic ones. Consequently, Viteritti wisely gives short shriftto the byzantine methodological distinctions made by re-searchers and, instead, focuses on the normative questions.