The best way to pay for good schooling would be low taxes to start. This would leave the parents' money in their own pockets without government management.
The second best is the school vouchers.
The school voucher money should be controlled by the parents. Hopefully the parents do care. There are, unfortunately, many parents who do not care.
Private schooling should include home schooling to everything else. This would give some money to buy school supplies, etc, for the home schooled.
Now, only the rich can easily avoid the trap of government schools with uncaring teachers, administrators, and union bosses.
If not this, then what.
The non-rich should have a better option than what is out there now.
which is exactly what the government does not want... it'll never allow it...
Can I get some money too? I would like to have the "choice" to even have a child. Maybe I'll go hit up some of the voucher people here since I'm paying for their child.
So explain why in DC 1/2 of the charter schools perform BELOW DC public schools--that's a really low bar to reach there and they aren't even making it. All those tax dollars pumped down a rat hole.
So, let's take thousands of MORE dollars and give them directly to parents and let's see how fast they spend them on "school supplies." And let's give these charter schools more money so that they can spend them on ridiculous salaries and equipment no one wants or needs while the students fall behind the DC public school kids.