Crafting a Court-Proof Education Voucher

Publication Date: May 1985

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): K. Allen Snyder

Research Area: Education

Keywords: Education

Type: Report

Abstract:

Although public education continues to serve nine out of ten of the nation's students, dismay over what they regard as its declining quality has prompted many parents to consider private schools as an alternative. To many families, however, the cost of private school tuition has been an insurmountable financial barrier. As a result, parents and policy makers have explored ways to make the private school alternative affordable to working and middle-class Americans. Two proposed methods are tuition tax credits and educational vouchers.