Instead of having just two kinds of schools, public or private, America will have a palette of choice, including voucher-redeeming public schools, voucher-redeeming private or parochial ones, quasi-public charter schools, quasi-private charter schools and home learning.

ECONOMIST: Sorting out school choice

Florida introduced a plan to allow children in the worst public schools to move to better schools, private, public or parochial. (A state judge's decision to strike down the scheme is being appealed against.) Illinois introduced tax credits for educational expenses.

ECONOMIST: V-day for vouchers?

These schools, like the parochial schools, are also assumed to be safer than the public schools.

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