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In other words, geographically selective but FULLY FUNDED vouchers. (I see very little value in these $2,000 per year grants; a voucher should be for the full pro-rata portion of the school budget, which will be sufficient to fund a supply of new parochial and independent school seats.)

How would you feel about a system that allowed schools to accept vouchers only as full payment?

How would you feel about a system that allowed schools to accept vouchers only as full payment?

I go back and forth on that.

I think that the government should do as little as possible to restrain competition among schools for the full voucher funds -- but, on the other hand, it would be an unattractive to create two disparate classes of urban voucher beneficiaries: well-off people who add $14,000 of their own to the $8,000 full-pro-rata voucher and go to the elite city private schools with private-college tuition levels, while all of the rest could only go to less-elite schools which charged little or no above the voucher amount.

I think some kind of need-sensitive system whereby a certain fraction of vouchers must be taken as tuition in full, would be best. Too large a fraction and the best schools would simply refuse to take vouchers, which would defeat the point of the system.