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While most proponents of school vouchers today tend to come from the political right, one of the originators of the movement was a noted leftist: "In the 1960s and early 1970s, academics on the left, such as Christopher Jencks (1966), argued that vast differences between the quality of public schooling for inner-city blacks and suburban whites could not be resolved within the structure of a residentially segregated public education system" (Carnoy, 6). Thus, the issue of using publicly funded vouchers to fund education in private schools has political origins both on the left and right side of the spectrum. On the one hand, political conservatives leverage the ideology of the free market to argue that private provision of educational services is preferable to public provision because it will create efficiencies and ultimately deliver a better product. On the other hand, political liberals have argued that parents of highly achieving children in low-income areas have a right to provide better schooling for their children, regardless of whether that schooling is private or public.
Other proponents of vouchers believe that our nation's proud history of political independence makes the use of school vouchers necessary. According to this argument, our nation's commitment to freedom ne
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