School_Vouchers

School Vouchers What is a School Voucher: Rather than allocate tax dollars to school districts, school vouchers allocate tax dollars to individuals for the express purpose of purchasing education. The general principles of a voucher system are as follows: (1) The government issues vouchers with a specified monetary value directly to individuals or families which may be used to pay for education. (2) The family or individual selects the school and uses the voucher as payment for the educational services. (3) The school exchanges all vouchers it collects in order to receive funds from the government. Vouchers enable families at all income levels to become consumers of education. Regardless of where a family lives, it may use vouchers to buy education in any school, public or private. Access to a good public school is no longer determined by one's ability to purchase a home. Low income families gain the necessary purchasing power to attend the private or public school of their choice. Who Supports School Vouchers' Minority families are among the strongest supporters of school vouchers. According to a Harris Poll commissioned by Business Week, 69% of the general public and 85% of minorities supported school vouchers. Perhaps the strong minority support stems from the fact that most voucher systems in operation today direct benefits to low income families which are disproportionately minority. Newt schools, school, vouchers, public, families, education, students, voucher, private, systems, children, system, towns, per, current, city, tuition, support, student, own, educational, because, year, wealthy, taxes, take, quality, programs, people, parents, money, high, funding, designed, country