One problem with the voucher idea: the parents that currently pay money to send their kids to private school, do it to get their kids AWAY from the Dewayne's and Shadiqua's of the world. They will be most unpleased if the voucher kids turn the private school into the kind of educational hell-hole that they paid money to escape.
They will also be most displeased to see that THEY have to pay money to send their kids to the school, but the voucher kids get in free.
—— They will also be most displeased to see that THEY have to pay money to send their kids to the school, but the voucher kids get in free. ——
Everyone gets a voucher, because vouchers are generally 50% of the per-pupil government school expenditure.
Who loses? The unions and the Democrat Party.
Govt schools can have as much as one hundred times the number of administrators per capita as private schools. And teacher salaries are twice those of parochial school teachers. Teacher salaries typically comprise 85-90% of the government school budget.