[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.

[D Rider]

When a private school accepts a government voucher, and then submits it for payment. The government then has a form of control over the school, especially when a large portion of income of the school becomes vouchers ("large portion" being as little as 15-20%). If parents apply for reimbursement instead of schools, then the bureaucrazy to implement the program goes through the roof.

The question I have is "how do we protect the integrity of the program from the Education Nazi's?"