And who do you think MADE those schools "awful"? Mostly the black students, with their anti-education attitudes, cutting classes, disrupting classes, violence, threatening teachers, etc. They crap up their own neighborhood schools, then are bussed to better schools, which they promptly turn into garbage cans like they left behind.
Florida just increased its voucher program to pay for students who want to escape the public schools. That program is now under a ferocious attack by left wingers and the public schools. They will cite some school that has under-performed or defrauded the voucher system and tar the lot with accusations. No where do they mention that the voucher schools produce much better results than the public schools.