GOVT. VOUCHERS = GOVT. STRINGS Dismantle the public system or make it non-compulsory with tuition payable on a per-student basis just like at the local private schools and no general tax levy to fund it otherwise. Let public compete head-to-head with private education, unsubsidized, and we'll see who comes out on top. Public education must be forced to improve by direct market pressures. Things like vouchers will only end up entangling private education in the same web of regulatory controls that have nearly destroyed public education.
Read The Underground History of American Education.