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Presents a distillation of a conference regarding school vouchers at the U of Pennsylvania in Feb 2000. In an Introduction, to the conference, Matthew Miller identifies traditional anti-voucher arguments offered by the Left (eg, such programs take funding from public schools) & pro-voucher arguments stated by the Right (eg, vouchers save tax payers money). In The Pro-Voucher Left and the Pro-Equity Right, John E. Coons, Lisa Graham Keegan, & T. Williard Fair provide a conservative pro-equity position or liberal pro-voucher positions on the school voucher issue & respond to questions asked by Miller, other participants, & audience members. In Is a Grand Bargain between Left and Right Possible?, Lamar Alexander, Clint Bolick, Andrew Rotherham, & Sandra Feldman address the issue of establishing a "grand bargain" between the American Left & Right over the school voucher question; remarks made during the subsequent question & answer session are also presented. Topics addressed include the G.I. Bill for Kids, establishing public support for public education, the efficacy of charter schools, & the need to improve poor children's educational achievements. J. W. Parker

Presents a distillation of a conference regarding school vouchers at the U of Pennsylvania in Feb 2000. In an Introduction, to the conference, Matthew Miller identifies traditional anti-voucher arguments offered by the Left (eg, such programs take funding from public schools) & pro-voucher arguments stated by the Right (eg, vouchers save tax payers money). In The Pro-Voucher Left and the Pro-Equity Right, John E. Coons, Lisa Graham Keegan, & T. Williard Fair provide a conservative pro-equity position or liberal pro-voucher positions on the school voucher issue & respond to questions asked by Miller, other participants, & audience members. In Is a Grand Bargain between Left and Right Possible?, Lamar Alexander, Clint Bolick, Andrew Rotherham, & Sandra Feldman address the issue of establishing a "grand bargain" between the American Left & Right over the school voucher question; remarks made during the subsequent question & answer session are also presented. Topics addressed include the G.I. Bill for Kids, establishing public support for public education, the efficacy of charter schools, & the need to improve poor children's educational achievements. J. W. Parker

In order to commit murder or mayhem under this program, vouchers must be submitted within one week prior to the actions contemplated or within a month afterward. Persons who commit violent acts without valid vouchers will be asked to enter into Voluntary Consent Agreements to desist from unauthorized murder or mayhem, and up to one tenth of any ill-gotten gains will be donated voluntarily to the charity of their choice, without any implication of admission of guilt.

The Swedish government undertook significant reform in the education sector in the 1990's. Among the important steps in this reform were the institution of vouchers for schooling, decentralisation of education to the municipal level, and entry of private for-profit schools. These changes significantly improved school choice for parents and children, and increased accountability of schools, principals, and teachers. In addition, some researchers hold that the institution of vouchers for schooling at the very least halted the falling performance of Swedish children on learning achievement tests. This publication reviews the Swedish model, outlines the successes, challenges and gaps in the model, and highlights the political currency of this policy in present day Sweden.

Discusses housing vouchers for low-income residents, a program created by the 1974 Housing and Community Development Act, and commonly known as the Section 8 housing assistance program; includes disadvantages of public housing; US. Some focus on Dallas.

The public voucher system is a means of paying for a given public service. Vouchers are issued by the public authorities to individual users to enable them to gain access to any institution that is approved by the public authorities, for a specific purpose. The provider of the service is paid back the amount of the voucher by the public institution that provides the funding for the voucher. This system provides a means of reviewing the relationship between the user and the public service in terms of efficiency and freedom. The voucher system is designed to improve competition among public service providers and to make public service offerings more flexible. While it does offer some interesting possibilities in terms of diversification of the services on offer, nonetheless the voucher system poses certain risks. In particular, it may lead to community behaviour patterns among beneficiaries and undermine equal opportunity. In any case, as the voucher system brings closer together the practical arrangements for defraying services in the private and public sectors, it opens up some useful avenues of reflection for the modernization of public services.

School vouchers introduced recently in some Italian regions have lowered the cost of private schools. On one side, we provide evidence that Italian private schools may be selected for different reasons than quality considerations. On the other side, by exploiting individual data on voucher applicants, we present evidence that the percentage of voucher applicants is higher the higher the average quality of private schools, which we explain with the fact that better quality schools provide better services to students, including information and consulting on vouchers. We show that enrolment in private schools responds sluggishly to changes in tuition induced by vouchers. Under stringent assumptions, we estimate the slopes of demand and supply of private education in the largest Italian region, Lombardy, during the first two years since implementation of a voucher scheme, and provide a quantitative assessment of the long-term impact of vouchers on tuition fees and enrolment in private schools.