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school voucher
[ skool vou-cher ]
noun
- a government voucher or cash grant given to a parent or guardian to be used toward paying the fees for their child to attend a private or parochial school of choice, instead of an assigned free public school: She opposes school vouchers, saying they shuffle kids into private, for-profit charter schools at taxpayers’ expense.
Proponents of school vouchers claim they give the city's poor improved access to quality education.
She opposes school vouchers, saying they shuffle kids into private, for-profit charter schools at taxpayers’ expense.
Word History and Origins
Origin of school voucher1
Example Sentences
Trump will likely abolish the Department of Education and federal education funding will switch to block grants to the states, which many will use to fund school voucher programs.
In Nebraska, voters also chose to repeal a school voucher program that the Legislature had passed.
Dunn and the Wilks brothers are religious conservatives who for years have backed candidates in Texas legislative races that support a school voucher system endorsed by Gov. Greg Abbott.
As a state legislator, Mr. Donalds had created a school voucher program that, in the words of one speaker, let children “get a biblical worldview education.”
He described it as the third leg of a stool that also includes approval of a universal school voucher program in last year’s state budget and the transfer of K-12 education oversight from Ohio’s independent state school board into DeWine’s Cabinet.
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