Definitions frame the boundaries and understanding of any conversation and school choice is no exception.
The Education Independence Glossary of Terms is designed to equip you with the accurate definitions you need to engage in the school choice conversation. While we recognize that not everyone uses these terms in the same way, we are committed to using them with consistency, honesty, and intellectual integrity.
A more complete glossary of terms is coming soon!
- 529 Savings Accounts
- Bill
- Capitalism
- Charter School
- Classical Education
- Communism
- Direct Democracy
- Due Process of Law
- Education-Based Nonrefundable Tax Credit
- Education-Based Refundable Tax Credit
- Education-Based Tax Credit
- Education-Based Tax Deduction
- Education Savings Accounts (ESAs)
- Eighteenth Amendment
- Eighth Amendment
- Eleventh Amendment
- Fascism
- Fifteenth Amendment
- Fifth Amendment
- First Amendment
- Fourteenth Amendment
- Fourth Amendment
- Free Market
- Funding Model
- Government School
- Home School
- Inflation
- Jurisdiction
- Magnet School
- Make Homeschool Safe Act
- Nineteenth Amendment
- Ninth Amendment
- Open Enrollment (Government Schools)
- Presumption of Innocence
- Private Donors/Benefactors
- Private-Public Partnership (PPP)
- Private School
- Public Policy
- Quasi-Market
- Republic
- Retention of Rights
- Scholarship Granting Organization (SGO)
- School Choice
- Second Amendment
- Seventeenth Amendment
- Seventh Amendment
- Single-Payer System
- Sixteenth Amendment
- Sixth Amendment
- Socialism
- Statute
- Subsidize
- Tax Credit ESAs
- Tax Credit Scholarships
- Tenth Amendment
- The Classical Conversations Scholarship Fund
- Third Amendment
- Thirteenth Amendment
- Town Tuitioning
- Twelfth Amendment
- Twentieth Amendment
- Twenty-Fifth Amendment
- Twenty-First Amendment
- Twenty-Fourth Amendment
- Twenty-Second Amendment
- Twenty-Seventh Amendment
- Twenty-Sixth Amendment
- Twenty-Third Amendment
- Universal School Choice
- Virtual Government School
- Vouchers
- Wealth Redistribution