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Institute a very very small tax credit ( better) or voucher ( not so good) for children with disabilities. Dyslexia is a disability, by the way.

Then...As some children on the block go to private school, the other parents begin to say, “Hey! How come **that** kid gets a tax credit to go to a local, safe, and effective private school and my kid doesn't?

Or....Offer a very very very few vouchers, then have parents line up by the hundreds in lines circling the block as the await the annual lottery pick. Be sure to show plenty of Youtubes of kids and parents crying because they didn't win.

Do that and political power for chance will build.

Do I think vouchers or tax credits are the best? No, I don't but they can be a means to break up the government school price-fixed monopoly and build a private infrastructure. Gradually, parents should be expected to pay for schooling. Gee! It's amazing how parents can pay for daycare but once a kid is 5 they insist on government babysitting ( oops! “schooling”).

The best of all worlds would be complete separation of school and state.

Enforce the U.S. Supreme Court decision re Communications Workers v. Beck (487 US 735, 1988).
Amend the National Labor Relations Act to eliminate union exemption from anti-trust law (an equal protection issue if I ever saw one).
Eliminate State teacher certification standards, thus allowing any professional proficient in a subject eligible to teach. A teacher’s tested results are what counts.
Eliminate State supervision of home education.
Offer State corporate service associations to local school districts, so that they can divest into highly localized service areas. Place authority over teacher employment, materials, and curriculum under a school principal directly accountable to parents of currently-enrolled students.
Drive general college education requirements onto secondary schools and end those requirements for college degrees, thus dedicating them to training and research.
Focus upon identifying and producing more high-level generalists, perhaps mentored by a specific academic/career path.
Use the private and home education market to develop and test learning tools and services. Accredit effective services for use in public schools.
Allow school boards to select validated educational products and services for use in public schools. Insurance on the guarantee would cover the cost of remedial education if the product fails to meet warranted performance.
Assist formation of corporate service associations. Offer State funding for local school districts to divest into smaller, more personalized institutions.
Private validation services could assess educational product performance against product claims.
Eliminate child labor laws for those meeting specific test standards. Allow that work experience to be the core of a generalist academic career path. Entrepreneurs can make great mentors.
Analyze any Federal program for insufficient funds and unintended consequences suspecting unfunded mandates. Cite New York v. United States (505 US 144, 1992).
Allow unrestricted access to state licensure via insured private testing.

Gradually, parents should be expected to pay for schooling.

...are you suggesting that parents do not pay for public schooling now...in addition to myself, who do not even have a child in the school system...?

...the price I pay for living in the house I choose feeds the gaping public school maw...