“The state bureaucrats and teachers are scared to death their lock on “education” will be broken — and they will fight tooth and nail to preserve their monopoly.”
They’ll need every weapon at their disposal, as the urban permanent underclass heads out into formerly-middle class suburbs armed with gubmint rent vouchers. Those taxpayers left in those areas will do anything to keep their kids out of schools filling with “cash-for-kids” animals. In my area private schools are being driven to extinction by our property taxes (most of which go to public schools), so any public-school option that doesn’t involve ghetto kids will be vigorously pursued.