14 Facts About School voucher

School voucher, called an education voucher in a voucher system, is a certificate of government funding for students at schools chosen by themselves or their parents.

In some countries, states, or local jurisdictions, the voucher can be used to cover or reimburse home schooling expenses.

PACES School voucher program was established by the Colombian government in late 1991.

Those vouchers were worth about US$190 in 1998, and data shows that matriculation fees and other monthly expenses incurred by voucher students attending private schools averaged about US$340 in 1998, so a majority of voucher recipients supplemented the voucher with personal funds.

The financial value of a voucher did not depend on the income of the family receiving it, and the program allowed private voucher schools to be selective, while public schools had to accept and enroll every interested student.

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Under SEP, the School voucher system was altered to take family incomes into account.

The voucher is paid with public funds from the local municipality directly to a school based solely on its number of students.

The School voucher scheme was designed by the Teachers College, Columbia University, and the Open Society Institute.

St Anthony Catholic School, located on Milwaukee's south side, boasts 966 voucher students, meaning that it very likely receives more public money for general school support of a parochial elementary or high school than any before it in American history.

The result, it has been argued, is that a voucher system has led or would lead students who do not belong to the private schools' preferred groupings to become concentrated at public schools.

Historically data suggests that School voucher programs have been used to further segregate Americans.

However, most voucher schools did not undergo a complete audit for not having a separate checking account for state voucher money.

School voucher found that religious instruction and secular education could not be separated and this itself violated the Establishment Clause.

Some private religious schools in voucher programs teach creationism instead of the theory of evolution, including religious schools that teach religious theology side by side with or in place of science.