school voucher

American  

[skool vou-cher] / ˈskul ˈvaʊ tʃər /

noun

1. 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.

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Etymology

Origin of school voucher

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

After his indictment, Kelsey continued to represent parents and schools as intervenors in a case in which they wanted the state’s two-county school voucher program to take effect.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 9, 2022

He was also the fifth vote in the 5-4 Zelman decision that upheld an Ohio school voucher program.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 27, 2018

Lawmakers were still negotiating other issues, including how much to loosen income eligibility levels to participate in the statewide private school voucher program, said Rep. John Nygren, co-chair of the Legislature’s budget committee.

From Washington Times • Aug. 22, 2017

Traditional school voucher programs, which exist in 15 states and the District of Columbia, allow the government to pay private schools, many of them religious, directly.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2017

Opportunity Scholarship Program — the nation’s only federally funded, private school voucher program for K-12 students — through 2021.

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2016