Exactly!
The founder of Wall Mart ( Walton) started a scholarship fund for vouchers. In my opinion though he spread his money too thinly. It would be better to focus on one small district at a time.
Hmm?... Maybe two districts: One poor and the other rich.
It would be interesting to see how privatizing the education of both groups would lead to improved achievement in both the rich and the poor students.
However....I would only support a **conservative** voucher foundation that would uphold classical liberalism and the Judeo Christian principles upon which this nation was founded. I would also like to see the conservative schools educate the parents as well in conservative principles. They could do this though parent conferences.
Maybe it would be best to start with one or two "Academies" in an area with a large enough population to support such an idea. It wouldn't matter if a person was rich or poor, they could still get a voucher from the private foundation for their children to attend the Academy. Of course there would be a contract that the parents and the student would need to agree to, such as rules of conduct, etc. Students not following the rules could be expelled from the Academy and given the opportunity to return to public or other private schools!
There wouldn't be any need to reinvent the wheel either. There are probably plenty of already accredited private schools that are suffering financially that could be used to begin implementation of this idea. The challenge would be how to raise the money to get started. Having a stated purpose and a proposed curriculum would be an absolute necessity to get donors to buy into the idea. I think it would also be a good idea to not accept any government money right from the beginning, and maybe even put a limit on how much any individual or business could contribute in any given year, since "he who pays the piper is apt to call the tune"!