1. Using a graph of supply and demand, indicate the impact of a voucher program on both a low-performing school and a high-performing school.?

Demand for the low-performing school should fall, and demand for the high-performing school should rise.

2. Why would a school voucher program increase inequality across schools?

Better students will use the voucher program to move away from underperforming schools to better schools. That movement away takes funds away from the underperforming school, leaving students that remain there will fewer resources at their disposal.

3. Some would argue that one of the roles of government is to provide universal education because of the positive external social benefits from education; and this education is to provided to all, not to just the few receiving and using vouchers. Does this program negate that role for government? Why or why not?

Answers may vary; depends on whether vouchers can be given to everyone, not just people randomly assigned into the program.

Multiple Choice/True False Questions