A voucher is a certificate which is worth a certain monetary value and which may only be spent for specific reasons or on specific goods. Examples include - but are not limited to - housing and food vouchers. Money is any marketable good or token used by a society as a store of value, a medium of exchange, or a unit of account. ...
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An education voucher, commonly called a school voucher, is a certificate by which parents are given the ability to pay for the education of their children at a school of their choice, rather than the public school to which they were assigned.
Since vouchers typically pay much less than the tuition charged by the private schools, only the richer students and those given scholarships will be able to attend them.
Often, the low costs of the private schools benefiting from voucher funds arises from the non-union status of their staffs and their limited overhead because of their exemption from laws protecting those with disabilities and the like.
Those in favor of school choice argue that they should be permitted to spend their tax dollars at the educational facility of their choosing, allowing parents to be able to choose which school they want their children to attend.
Anti-school choice or Anti-choice detractors state that such choice often results in the selection of a religious school, so that public funds are given to a religious institution, thus violating the separation of church and state (although a United States Supreme Court decision in 2003 invalidated this claim).
Further, many argue that given the limited budget for schools, a voucher system weakens public schools while at the same time not necessarily providing enough money for people to attend private schools (the tendency of the costs of tuition to rise along with its demand further compounds the problem).
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