Education Vouchers (page 3) Educational vouchers represent a
system of education finance in which parents are given a tuition
certificate that can be used to attend participating public or
private schools. Education vouchers can be paid by public
(government) or private (corporations, foundations) funds. Many
different kinds of voucher plans have been proposed. Each may
address the needs of different students and emphasize different
priorities. For example, the dollar amount of a voucher differs
considerably among different plans. Also, a voucher can be given
to low-income students, to students in failing schools, or to
the entire population. However, all publicly-funded voucher
programs take funds usually given directly to public schools and
allocate them to parents to decide where money for their child’s
education will be spent. |For further discussion of education
vouchers, see the following NCSPE article:| |Occasional Paper 5:
Levin, Henry M. 2000. “A Comprehensive Framework for Evaluating
Educational Vou