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Mon 29 Oct, 2007 11:13 pm
WHEN the federal Education Department recently reported that children in private schools generally did no better than comparable students at public schools on national tests of math and reading, the findings were embraced by teachers' unions and liberals, and dismissed by supporters of school voucher programs.
Pls explain the use of voucher in this context. Does it refer to coupon or receipt?
A school voucher, also called an education 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 (UK state school) to which they were assigned.
More information here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_voucher
The idea was floated in the US as well. Our teachers' unions didn't like it either.
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