A school voucher is a portion of money the state allocates for parents to pay K-12 school #tuition for their children – which includes religious and non-religious private options. These funds are generated from the income and sales taxes communities pay, and through tax credits issued to businesses to incentivize them into making donations to scholarship organizations. There are three types of vouchers including traditional vouchers, the Education Savings Account (ESA), and tax credit scholarships.

Some believe these vouchers allow parents to tailor the education their child receives based on the learning pattern of the child. It gives parents a choice to the education for their children. Also, it assists low income families with their education needs, so the school system is overall more equitable. Voucher systems also provide a landscape of competition, forcing public schools to "win students over" so that they become a school of choice instead of students going because that is the only option.

On the other hand, some believe that vouchers take money away from public schools, leaving them with very little financial resources to manage the students they have, while dealing with external competition from private schools and homeschooling. The feel it disenfranchises students who have no option but to go to the geographically closest public school, and the system takes funds away from that school in order to support the voucher program.

The question for debate, should the United States use the #SchoolVoucher system for K-12 students?