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

Legislators also worked out how to expand Tennessee’s low-income school voucher program, choosing to add Hamilton County, which includes Chattanooga.

From Seattle Times

On Thursday, the Legislature sent DeSantis a bill that expands the state’s school voucher program to anyone.

From Seattle Times

She had long pushed for a school voucher program as the centerpiece of her agenda as governor.

From Washington Post

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

Makin, in which the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, concerns an unusual school voucher program with about 5,000 students in parts of Maine so rural that there are no public high schools.

From Washington Post