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Before you answer this discussion board question, please refer to the syllabus regarding the requirements for an answer. After you are finished reading Gruber Chapter 11, keep in mind two things: (1) education remains the single largest expenditure item for the budgets of state and local governments; and (2) the literature on the ‘returns to education’ contains much debate about how benefits accrue to society (and about which parts of society) when individuals get more schooling or when they get schooling from a higher-quality environment. Nonetheless, there is some evidence that school vouchers can lead to “cream-skimming,” where private schools pick off the better students and leave public schools with lower-ability average students. Because of this, some scholars propose targeted vouchers, in which different sized vouchers go to different groups of students, to combat this potential concern (e.g., Group A would get $5,000 voucher, Group B would get a $2,500 voucher, and Group C would get a $1,200 voucher). Given this concern about reducing the level of cream-skimming, please explain WHETHER AND WHY you (a) SUPPORT or OPPOSE giving Group C the lesser sized voucher?

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