voucher system
Ticket-based allocation method
A voucher system is an arrangement where the government provides certificates or credits that recipients can use to purchase specific goods or services from approved providers.
In education, voucher systems let parents use public funds for private school tuition: The state's voucher system allows families to choose alternative schools.
Similar systems exist for housing, food assistance, and healthcare.
- food stampsSubsidized grocery purchasing vouchers
- expense reimbursementRepayment for business outlays
- school choiceSelecting among educational institutions
- charter schoolsIndependent public education institutions
- private schoolTuition-funded educational institution
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- economic policymonetary policy, tax policy, fiscal discipline, fiscal stimulus, fiscal restraint
- allocation methodslottery, quota, rationing, first come first served, merit-based
- education reformeducation reform, school reform, curriculum reform, Common Core, No Child Left Behind
- rationingration stamps, coupon books, coupons, food rationing, gas rations
- Post-Communist Transitiondemocratization, liberalization, free market, free elections, market economy
- alternative educationalternative schools, democratic education, homeschooling, homeschool, unschooling
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Government-operated educational network
voucher systemcommand economy
State-controlled economic system
state monopoly · single-payer system · government monopoly · rationing · rationing system
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