Vouchers pay private-school tuition with taxpayers' money.
The claim that this would improve opportunities for disadvantaged children is a brazen piece of deceit. The real agenda is to destroy educational opportunities for all but the privileged. The voucher movement aims to shut down the public school system and eliminate government funding for public education, however unlikely that possibility might seem. They also oppose mandatory education. Even the sponsor of Prop. 38, venture capitalist Tim Draper, admitted at a March education forum that his own kids' private schools probably wouldn't accept voucher students.