School Vouchers Research Paper
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School vouchers are seen as opportunity scholarships, where a school age child can use state-funded scholarships to pay for the child to attend private school rather than public school. The private schools must meet minimum standards established by legislatures in order to accept voucher recipients. There is also legislatures that set certain guidelines for student eligibility, theses guides normally target subgroups of students (low income students, students attending chronically low performing schools, students with disabilities, or students in military families or foster care). Vouchers tend to split people into two groups, those who see them as very valuable tool to help needed children escape failing public schools and the others who