School Vouchers

School vouchers give parents the freedom to choose a private school for their children, using all or part of the public funding set aside for their children’s education. Under such a program, funds typically spent by a school district would be allocated to a participating family in the form of a voucher to pay partial or full tuition for their child’s private school, including both religious and non-religious options.

Do you know which of America’s school voucher programs is the biggest? Which school voucher program was ruled constitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States? For more little-known truths about America’s school voucher programs, visit our school voucher fast facts.

School voucher programs—if well designed—improve students’ academic performance, according to the available research. In fact, the opportunity created by school voucher programs actually drives improvement in public school students’ academic performance, as well. Beyond that, school voucher programs foster more racial and socio-economic integration and better civic values in students. The proof is in the empirical evidence, which we track and cite in the research linked below.

School vouchers save states and taxpayers money while educating more kids than our current public school system can alone. Visit our Fiscal Research & Education Center (FREC) dashboards to learn more.