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How would you feel about a system that allowed schools to accept vouchers only as full payment?

I go back and forth on that.

I think that the government should do as little as possible to restrain competition among schools for the full voucher funds -- but, on the other hand, it would be an unattractive to create two disparate classes of urban voucher beneficiaries: well-off people who add $14,000 of their own to the $8,000 full-pro-rata voucher and go to the elite city private schools with private-college tuition levels, while all of the rest could only go to less-elite schools which charged little or no above the voucher amount.

I think some kind of need-sensitive system whereby a certain fraction of vouchers must be taken as tuition in full, would be best. Too large a fraction and the best schools would simply refuse to take vouchers, which would defeat the point of the system.

Too large a fraction and the best schools would simply refuse to take vouchers, which would defeat the point of the system.

I understand your point. A lot of families really don't need help paying for their children's education. If they want to send their kids to an elite, very expensive school (which they are doing now), they would be unaffected by a system which required schools to accept vouchers as full payment because their schools would not accept them. Wouldn't that free up some resources so that kids who needed them could get larger vouchers?