A program to provide government money to parents to subsidize tuition for their children at private schools.

School voucher systems have been proposed in several states and cities across the nation and is part of a larger movement toward school choice. The choice movement advocates abolishing strict school district lines, allowing parents to enroll their children in any public school in the area, creating so-called "magnet" schools with special programs to attract bright students and similar "charter" schools with more autonomy than a traditional public school. School vouchers, therefore, extend the choice concept. Using a voucher of state money to subsidize tuition, parents would also be able to send their children to private or religious schools. While other aspects of the school choice agenda have been implemented in many school districts, including Los Angeles and Chicago, the voucher system has encountered both legal problems and lack...