[D Rider]

While I amm'm generally for vouchers, I should point out my reservations. These are based on what the federal guvmint has done to our universities. The got private and public institutions hooked on grant money and such and now can but pressure in a whole host of areas, from admissions to course of study particulars. I would hate to have the guvmint federalize private schools in a defacto sot of way. There need to be protections. The block grant idea is just one, but we need more.

Remember who we are dealing with. The Education establishment is a bunch of socialists, They will seek to control all education in a socialist/fascist manner. It is their way. It's who they are. It's what we are up against.

[WindOracle]

This is why vouchers should be granted to those whose kids are actually in the private schools, and not to the schools themselves. Parents who care enough about the kids to go to the trouble of placing them in private schools will do a good enough job of making sure the kids are actually learning something. I know that I am not going to pay money for my son to continue in a private school that does not produce results. And I am under no illusions that the govt will ever reimburse me the WHOLE amount I am paying, with or without vouchers.
Such vouchers should be payable to the PARENTS when they have demonstrated expenses. It probably should be done as some form of deduction from Income Taxes, since that would seem to me to be the easiest angle to handle it, but I am sure that it could be worked out some other way if needed. Whatever the case, you are correct, we cannot allow it to be set up in such a way that the govt gets control over the schools themselves. The schools must remain accountable to the PARENTS.