Which of the Following Has Been Raised as a Criticism

question 569

Multiple Choice

Which of the following has been raised as a criticism of school voucher programs?

• A) The primary beneficiaries of voucher programs would be low-income families since they can now send their children to private schools.
• B) Voucher programs would cause salaries for outstanding teachers to fall.
• C) Funding for public schools would decline, which would cause their quality to deteriorate.
• D) Voucher programs would cause the level of competition between public and private schools to fall.

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Definitions:

Exponential Growth

A population growth pattern where the size of the population increases at a rate proportional to its current size, leading to faster growth as the population gets larger.

Carrying Capacity

The maximum population size of a biological species that an environment can sustain indefinitely.

Random Dispersion

A pattern of spacing of individuals within a population where the position of each individual is independent of others.

Interference Competition

Intraspecific competition in which certain dominant individuals obtain an adequate supply of the limited resource at the expense of other individuals in the population. Also called contest competition.