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__**Trend Name:**__ School Vouchers, also known as Education Vouchers.


 * __Basic Summary of Trend:__** Vouchers are a very controversial issue that certifies parents to be allowed to choose where their children want to go to school, and be able to pay for it (like a scholarship program). Parents have a wider variety of choice and their children are able to go to public or private schools. The trend was meant to cancel out bad schools because parents would only choose good schools for their children to go to. Due to the trend, it allowed low income children to have the same opportunity as the wealthy children which allowed for a larger variety for economic diversity. Schoold would be in constant competition to be better than the rest so that parents would want to send their children their.


 * __Key Manifestations:__** Children from low class families have been able to get the same, advanced education as the child from a wealthy family: an example is in Jackson vs. Benson where the court allowed The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. Also, bad schools have been cancelled out because parents only want to send their children to good schools.


 * __Key Personnel:__** Milton Friedman started this trend when he stated that this would significantly help to promote popularize competition and benefit by forcing schools to improve. NEA (National Education Association) have continually fought to improve public schools. Many court cases were fought and debated to make these vouchers constitutional such as: Jackson v. Benson, WI v. Supreme Court, Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, all of which little by little led to the victory of the vouchers.


 * __Why/How a trend?__** Vouchers is continually a debated trend that each individual person has their own opinion on. Some people are in favor of the vouchers, while others are strongly against them. This issue will continue to be fought throughout the future of education, thus making it a trend. Many under privleged children will be able to benefit from these vouchers, while others will continuely feel that these vouchers will have a very little effect on academic improvements.


 * Links:http://eric.uoregon.edu/trends_issues/choice/selected_abstracts_vouchers/legal_issues.html**