The voucher system is a way for parents to have a say in the choice of school for their children. Essentially, a voucher system is a program that gives parents a tax break or voucher equal to the amount of tuition for the school of their choice, which is usually a private school. For many different voucher systems, benefits are limited to failing public school students, meaning that struggling students in a near-failing school are left hanging until the school is judged bad enough that they can try another (Garnet, 2005). Since the implementation of the voucher system is relatively new and there is not much research yet, it is difficult to draw a definitive conclusion about their effectiveness. Even without definitive research, it is easy to see the truth about their effectiveness; School voucher systems do not have a significant effect on students' education. When looking at a brief overview of school voucher systems, it is important to realize that No Child Left Behind is the policy that truly sparked the implementation of school accountability and thus the idea of ​​school choice. Politicians wanted to improve the American education system and so began mandating standardized testing in public schools and assigning written “grades” to overall academic achievement (Garnet, 2005). The implementation of school voucher systems became a way to scare struggling schools into improving, because they gave parents the option of transferring their children to private schools, which would mean that schools Public schools would lose students and, more importantly, funding (West, 2005). While this seems like a great idea, it is statistically flawed in many ways, including the reach of students who...... middle of paper ...... that voucher programs Whether or not studies benefit the country's education system, it is clear that the benefits do not outweigh the risks. So much time and energy is spent on legal battles across the country, even though the Federal Supreme Court has already ruled that vouchers are consistent with Constitutional rights (Garnet, 2005). There is no point wasting so much time drawing attention to the legality of the school choice system and vouchers when you could be spending that time improving the implementation of voucher programs at across the country, which would actually benefit students (Manuel, 2006). In conclusion, voucher systems cannot benefit students if they are not implemented effectively and they cannot be implemented effectively when politicians and state leaders prefer to talk rather than work together to improve the system..