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	Utah's Revolutionary New School Voucher Program
		Schools also must have an independent auditor assess relevant information about the school's budget and accounting procedures and include this information in the school's application to the state.
		Opponents of school choice argue that programs that allow parents to educate their children in private or religious schools violate either the federal or the state constitution.
		Under this system of universal school vouchers, families have the opportunity to shop for the best school for their children, and schools have to compete to offer superior services and, thus, attract students.
	www.heritage.org /Research/Education/wm1362.cfm (1464 words)

	School vouchers
		Proponents against vouchers also feel that subsidizing tuition for students in private schools does not expand opportunities for low-income children who either are not taken by the private school of their choice or whose parents have chosen for them to stay within the public schools.
		When the charter schools in Dayton began to open, many of the students with disabilities (learning disabilities, physical handicaps, severe language or reading difficulties, etc.) were left behind because typically the charter schools (and this goes for private and parochial schools as well) are not equipped to deal with any type of handicapped students.
		Vouchers are not going to fix the fact that public schools in low-income areas receive children at the kindergarten level without a strong foundation of language and problem solving skills to build from.
	campus.udayton.edu /~eqrelief/vouchers.html (2147 words)

	School Vouchers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Through vouchers and tuition tax credits, lawmakers are creating alternatives to public education for a growing number of dissatisfied parents and raising serious questions about the role of public education in the new millennium.
		In Ohio, the state Supreme Court ruled that the Cleveland voucher program was constitutional in regard to the establishment of religion, but its passage in 1995 violated the one-subject rule (it was passed as part of the budget rather than as a stand-alone program) and the program was overturned.
		They claim that Milwaukee public schools are losing less than nine students per school due to vouchers, making it difficult to reduce costs to compensate for the forgone revenue, and raising questions about resources and class size.
	www.ncsl.org /programs/educ/voucher.htm (2229 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Society & Community - American Education . School Vouchers \| PBS
		The first publicly funded schools predate the nation itself — they were created by the Massachusetts Public Law of 1647.
		School vouchers, which are "federal funds that enable public school students to attend schools of their choice, public or private," move the idea of choice into a more controversial arena, raising issues of the separation of church and state, as most voucher money would likely go to private religious institutions.
		However, vouchers for private schooling proved a very contentious issue and even a small pilot voucher program was defeated and removed from the bill before it was signed into law.
	www.pbs.org /now/society/vouchers.html (906 words)

	School Vouchers
		Quite to the contrary, the debate over school vouchers has proven to be one of the most divisive issues in the present political arena.
		Vouchers have gained a lot of media attention in the recent years, and as it is clearly the most publicized education proposal, people tend to equate vouchers with school reform, even though they may know nothing about how they actually operate.
		Parents like the idea of being empowered to choose the schools their children attend, and in general, the freedom to choose is a valued and treasured concept of American democracy.
	www.pubpol.duke.edu /courses/ps145.02/project/group09/opinion.html (876 words)

	School Vouchers
		Vouchers are part of a trend in the Bush administration to shift responsibilities of government to religious institutions.
		While vouchers are supposed to give students a "choice," schools also have a "choice." Private schools have the right to not accept students for any number of reasons including race, religious background and learning disabilities.
		The constitutionality of school vouchers is being fought in the states.
	www.theocracywatch.org /schools_voucher.htm (1237 words)

	School Vouchers
		Some new schools have sprung up in Milwaukee in the decade since that city’s experiment with vouchers for low-income students began, but a few of them have turned out to be fly-by-night operations that shut down after failing to deliver on promises.
		While a few children may be helped by vouchers, there may be even less financial support for inner city schools in the long run, leading to fewer resources for those parents who “choose” to keep their children in under-funded schools because, notwithstanding vouchers, they cannot avail themselves of private education.
		Vouchers will “skim” or “cream” higher achieving students, thus leaving public schools with a higher proportion of more difficult to educate children and fewer funds for that education.
	www.asu.edu /educ/epsl/EPRU/documents/cerai-00-31.htm (3138 words)

	Education voucher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		School voucher proponent Milton Friedman observed that the poor have an incentive to support school choice, as their children attend substandard schools, and would thus benefit most from alternative schools.
		This further undermines the reputation of the public schools, leading to a vicious circle that tends toward the total abolition of the public schools and the end of universal education.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/School_vouchers (2297 words)

	AFT - Hot Topics - Vouchers - The Many Names of School Vouchers
		Proponents of such programs say that they increase "school choice" or "parent choice." Opponents point out that such "school choice" is limited by the fact that private and religious schools get to choose their students; parents may choose a particular private or religious school, but that school does not have admit their children.
		Private School Vouchers: Taxpayer dollars that are used to pay for all or part of the cost for students to attend private and, often, religious schools.
		Low-Income Private School Vouchers: Taxpayer dollars that are used to pay for all or part of the cost for students from low-income families to attend private and, often, religious schools.
	www.aft.org /topics/vouchers/index.htm (774 words)

	School Vouchers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In fact, voucher proposals often contain language specifically intended to avoid application of civil rights laws, and many proponents insist voucher funding does not flow to the school but instead to the parent or student.
		Further, private and religious schools can reject a student based on the school’s own admissions criteria and discriminate against a student in access to classes, guidance counseling, extracurricular activities, and other aspects of education.
		Vouchers are taxpayers’ dollars spent according to the policies of a private school board—not the decisions of a democratically elected and publicly accessible school board.
	www.aauw.org /issue_advocacy/actionpages/positionpapers/vouchers.cfm (443 words)

	Resources on Minnesota Issues: Educational Vouchers
		The concept of universal school vouchers was introduced in the United States through an essay called "The Role of Government in Education" written by Milton Friedman in 1955.
		Variations include educational tax credits, limits on parental income to qualify for a voucher, limits on the voucher amount, and limits on the range of schools at which vouchers might be used.
		Nevertheless during the 1996 legislative session his proposed voucher legislation was rejected by the committee that considered it, never reaching the full House or Senate for a vote.
	www.leg.state.mn.us /lrl/issues/voucher.asp (1997 words)

	THE SCHOOL VOUCHER DEBATE AFTER ZELMAN: CAN STATES BE COMPELLED TO FUND SECTARIAN SCHOOLS UNDER THE FEDERAL ...
		Proponents of school vouchers today have adopted Friedman’s reasoning, and argue that the educational quality of public schools will increase as a result of vouchers because public schools would be forced to improve or risk losing students and teachers to private schools.
		Proponents of school vouchers also argue that fairness requires the government to provide an educational alternative for the inner-city poor who are forced to attend failing public schools.
		Although in the school voucher context, the viewpoint discrimination is based on selective funding, not the use of facilities, cases involving a limited forum provide instruction for evaluating restrictions based on viewpoint in government subsidies.
	www.bc.edu /schools/law/lawreviews/meta-elements/journals/bclawr/44_4/17_TXT.htm (6854 words)

	Private School Vouchers
		Proposals to use private school vouchers, a marketplace strategy, as a mechanism by which to improve the general quality of public education have produced a lively debate.
		The failure to recognize that public schools have a central responsibility in a democratic society is further evidenced by the work of John Chubb and Terry Moe (1990), who argue that improving the efficiency and quality of public education will require the replacement of democratic governance by market mechanisms.
		Although schools are not charged directly with creating these problems, the public is turning to public education for solutions to broad and complex social conditions.
	www.weac.org /resource/vouchers.htm (2628 words)

	The Realities of School Vouchers
		Bush put vouchers on the same shelf as a decision whose application periodically required the National Guard to ensure that no fl child was left behind or stomped on.
		While the national ratio of one private school student to every eight public school students is about the same today as it was in 1970, the ratio of private school teachers to public school teachers has risen from 1 for every 9 to 1 for every 7.
		Vouchers are useless for elite private schools since they are good for only up to $2,250 per student.
	www.commondreams.org /views02/0710-02.htm (930 words)

	School Vouchers - House Research (Site not responding. Last check: )
		School voucher decision moves the school voucher debate to state legislatures and state courts
		The expansion of school choice programs, the public’s interest in private schools for safety and academic reasons, and a clarification of constitutional issues may encourage state legislatures to explore school voucher plans that base students’ eligibility on family income and residency, similar to Cleveland and Milwaukee, or enrollment in failing schools, similar to Florida.
		Proponents argue that school vouchers give poor families educational opportunities similar to those enjoyed by wealthier families and ensure, through market forces, that parents have sufficient choices to provide their children with an education consistent with their values and beliefs.
	www.house.leg.state.mn.us /hrd/issinfo/ssvchr.htm (1037 words)

	School choice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There are several critics who oppose the idea of school choice because of its being advertised to Christian organizations with promises that many of the students would end up in their religious schools, and because of possible conflict with the separation of church and state.
		Some school choice proponents question the motives of those who put forth arguments that voters are misled for the benefit of a small handful of rich business merchants, since it seems to focus on not helping a certain class of people, instead of focusing on how best to educate children.
		School vouchers are legally controversial in some states; in 2005 the Florida Supreme Court found that school vouchers were illegal under the Florida Constitution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/School_choice (3260 words)

	SCHOOL VOUCHERS REVISITED
		Voucher Schools are required to transmit to CSIVA listings of their current employees, and transmit personnel records including "confidential" records on request of CSIVA representatives with proper authority, these requests to be made in electronic form.
		School Operators and the individuals [including the officers of any corporation which is an organization comprising a School operator] and organizations comprising them whose school has been liquidated by CSIVA may not apply for new CSIVA voucher school status for the period of 2 years from when the school's obligations have been met.
		Voucher schools are directed to accept transfer students fitting the school admission criteria (see Admission section of initiative) on a space-available basis and will accept the portion of voucher funds unused by the previous school as payment for this student's educational services.
	www.ecis.com /~alizard/voucher.html (7759 words)

	Academic Choices - YES; School Vouchers - NO
		Vouchers are a bad funding system that calls to mind standing in line for food stamps or filing a long government qualifying form like the college FAFSA (a mini tax return).
		Milwaukee's School Choice experiment was evaluated by a research team headed by political scientist John Witte at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
		Sure it reduces taxes to the government school, but its one less student the government school must support, and reduces the student/teacher ratio and classroom crowding for the remaining students.
	4brevard.com /choice/vouchers.htm (3475 words)

	USATODAY.com - Supreme Court OKs school vouchers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is likely to ignite debates among school boards across the nation over "voucher" tuition programs that some see as glimmers of hope for low-income students in troubled school systems, but that others see as threats to America's public school tradition because they divert taxpayer money to private institutions.
		While public school boards and civil libertarians vowed to keep fighting vouchers as a public-school option, proponents predict the court's ruling would create momentum for the idea that so far has been spurned in ballot initiatives and many state legislatures.
		Voucher funds, which in Cleveland were limited to $2,200 per student, generally preclude the participation of private schools without church sponsorship.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2002/06/27/scotus-vouchers.htm (1658 words)

	EconEdLink \| EconomicsMinute \| The Controversial School Voucher Issue
		In general, school voucher programs are designed to provide students with a fixed dollar amount per year to attend the school of their choice.
		School choice is about giving all parents the chance to be integral participants in their children's education.
		An additional argument against school vouchers is that the choice to attend a private school is not completely up to the student but often determined by the admissions committees at private schools.
	www.econedlink.org /lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM185 (1129 words)

	Special Voucher Report - Rethinking Schools Online
		In Milwaukee, the home of the largest publicly funded school voucher program, there are on-going concerns about the negative financial impact that the program has on public schools and the lack of accountability for the publicly-financed voucher schools.
		Voucher schools receive $6,501 per full-time student and are not required to administer any form of standardized assessments or hire certified teachers.Over a half billion dollars of tax-payers’ money have gone to private vouchers schools in Milwaukee since the program started.
		Many public schools in urban areas have such problems that it may be tempting to consider vouchers a legitimate reform.
	www.rethinkingschools.org /special_reports/voucher_report (983 words)

	CNN.com - Bush repeats support for school vouchers - Feb. 13, 2004
		Students must gain admission to a private school and cover tuition or other costs exceeding their vouchers, with the maximum voucher per year at $7,500.
		The District and the Education Department are scrambling to get the program running in time for the next school year, as many private schools are in their admissions season.
		John T. Butler, principal of Archbishop Carroll High School where tuition this year is $6,250 this year for Catholic students and $6,500 for non-Catholics, said he hopes to serve at least 25 students through the new voucher program next year.
	www.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/13/bush.vouchers.ap (466 words)

	Franklin Perez - Supports School Choice & Pure School Voucher System!
		For private elementary schools, Vermont statutes require towns to pay no more then either the average announced public-school tuition, which is determined by a formula, of Vermont union district elementary schools for the year of attendance, or the tuition charged by the public elementary school attended by the greatest number of the district's pupils.
		Pure voucher payments shall begin at $5000 per student that may be redeemed at any public, private, sectarian (i.e., religious), or non-sectarian school of the parent's choosing; amount of voucher may be raised or lowered by normal passage of a legislative bill.
		Any voucher amount that exceeds the tuition and fees of the public or private school for any year in which the pupil is in attendance shall be credited to an account on behalf of the parent for each eligible child to be managed by the State Treasurer.
	www.geocities.com /fperez_2008/school_voucher_eng.html (9463 words)

	School Vouchers News
		School Vouchers News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		Spiraling property taxes brought on by the high cost of education and the lack of career opportunities for young people in the state are the key issues facing the Vermont Legislature this session.
		Just a few days after it was announced that Caddo Parish school superintendent Ollie Tyler was named as the state's representative for a national school administrator's award, the state issued school and...
	www.topix.net /education/school-vouchers (674 words)

	School Vouchers in Public Education - The Public School Parents Network
		This page is dedicated to providing links to help parents examine the pros and cons of the proposed school voucher system.
		On the surface, it appears that if public schools are dependant upon the positive or negative impressions they leave upon parents, than the implementation of a voucher system should translate into improved conditions for our children educated within the system.
		Schools and school systems performing poorly claim that vouchers will only worsen the situation, parents are tired of waiting for "a brighter day", and private schools are chomping at the bit for new students.
	www.psparents.net /school_vouchers.htm (467 words)

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