The Voucher Challenge

“It is only the tyranny of the status quo that leads us to take it for granted that in schooling, government monopoly is the best way for the government to achieve its objective.”
—The School Choice Advocate (January 2004)

Milton Friedman On Vouchers

“Our goal is to have a system in which every family in the U.S. will be able to choose for itself the school to which its children go. We are far from that ultimate result. If we had that a system of free choice we would also have a system of competition, innovation which would change the character of education.”
—CNBC Interview Transcript (March 2003)

Why America Needs School Vouchers

“The major objective of educational vouchers is much more ambitious. It is to drag education out of the 19th century - here it has been mired for far too long - and into the 21st century, by introducing competition on a broad scale.”
—Wall Street Journal (2000)