[Republican Babe]

You would see corporations lining up to create centers for learning. Parents would spend school vouchers at this market place where excellence would be expected/guaranteed. There have been some experiments with vouchers but only to prove the idea unworkable and/or unAmerican. Both excuses only further the NEA's protection of their hold on the public school system. When taxpayer's demand that at least half of education money is spent to give family's this choice, vouchers will work.
I can see a place for the excellent teacher in this system. Those teachers who are wholly depending on the protection of the NEA will be left behind.....realize now that the public school system commands that: NO TEACHER is LEFT BEHIND.

[khnyny]

I think Jeb Bush tried to get school vouchers approved in Florida recently, but the measure got defeated.

IMHO, vouchers are a good idea, but the teachers' union is a very powerful lobby who are hanging on to their tenure, benefits and anything else they can grab onto for dear life.