In Britain, Michael Gove, the secretary of state for education, hopes to centralize education spending through a plan to fund individual schools directly, according to the Wall Street Journal. Which brings up an interesting question:
Will he make the leap from notional vouchers to the real thing? As reformers have long argued, the logical conclusion of their policies is the eventual introduction of school vouchers that are allocated to parents. They could then take an annual allocated amount to their state schools of choice to cover the cost of their child's schooling.
?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow