Friedman: Market offers poor better learning.

According to Friedman, low-income parents should get tax-supported vouchers to send their children to private or religious schools.



Opponents say that there will be no separation of the church and the state anymore. Friedman reacts by saying that most parents will have limited choices of schools as long as the government controls public education and his idea will reduce this drastically. Others say that vouchers could eliminate public education, which is payed by taxpayers and runned by locals , and could create ‘a system that essentially will be ‘every man for himself’. When the government asked parents in polls about the idea they replied ‘they would prefer to see improvements in existing schools’. The debate continues..

Ellen Noé