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Debate: Education vouchers
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- Argument: Vouchers give poor a choice of schools, lower inequality
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- Argument: Government control over education and learning is too invasive, justifying the privatizing effect of school vouchers
- Argument: Private sector schools require extra funds as the profit motive has to be met
- Argument: Educational libertarians argue that vouchers would come with regulations that would damage the independence of private schools
- Argument: Incentives to improve schools can be introduced without removing the whole system of publicly run education
- Argument: The curriculum is not a private matter between school and pupil
- Argument: Giving the state full control over children’s education is inappropriate
- Argument: Vouchers can end the social split between private and state education, which entrenches social divisions
- Argument: Vouchers not only encourage efficiency, they also promote innovation and specialisation
- Argument: Education cannot be a market as it shouldn't fit into a fungible supply/demand system
- Argument: Without incentives, schools will not improve. Vouchers introduce market forces into the education system
- Argument: Variety within the education system is not always a good thing
- Argument: Counter that government control will not necessarily follow the flow of public money into private schools
- Argument: Concern that government controls will inevitably follow public funding of private schools, resulting in the loss of their independence, quality, and efficiency
- Maurice P. McTigue
- Argument: New Zealand's education vouchers worked
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- Argument: Vouchers introduce competition without over-regulating public schools
- Debate:Education Vouchers (redirect page)
- Argument: Schools vouchers mostly benefit the affluent
- Argument: Voucher competition spurs schools to improve academic achievement
- Argument: Competition via vouchers makes schools more efficient/effective
- Argument: Poor often can't afford private schools, even with vouchers
- Argument: Vouchers honor right of parents/students to choose school
- Argument: Vouchers comply with separation of church and state
- Argument: Vouchers lack choice as private schools can exclude students
- Argument: Vouchers improve choice/access despite private school right to deny
- Argument: Vouchers worsen gap between private and public schools
- Argument: School vouchers leave worst schools and students behind
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