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Instead of providing fixed voucher amounts to parents, a more equitable and cost-effective plan might have introduced a graduated voucher system. The parents of a child enrolled at a private school could receive vouchers which varied according to the school's tuition. One possible scenario would be as follows: For every dollar that the private school tuition exceeded the voucher, a dollar would be deducted from the amount of the voucher paid to the parents of the enrolled student...
This graduated private school voucher system would both encourage parents to choose reasonably priced private school educations for their children and encourage schools to maintain reasonable tuitions...
...this example, schools priced above twice the amount of the voucher would not receive any vouchers, and thus unnecessary subsidation of elite private schools could be avoided. Teacher union cries of private school inflation and excessive "defunding" of public schools would quiet to a whimper...
Another welcome improvement would be to introduce certain guidelines, regulations and standards to ensure a reasonable quality of education at any and every school. One such guideline might mandate that all newly hired teachers at voucher-participating schools hold Bachelor of Arts degrees. This college degree requirement would not apply retroactively but would apply to current teachers wishing to transfer to other voucher-participating schools...
...Tuesday. It is expected to be shot down, but if it passes, parents will be entitled to draw $2,600 in government funds if they place their child in a private or parochial school. John Chase of the National Education Association, the country's largest teachers' union, decries such voucher programs as an attempt by religious conservatives to "pull kids out of public schools and educate them in their own philosophy at taxpayer expense...