[speekinout]

Vouchers create a new vector for government involvement in private and parochial schools that have succeeded, primarily due to the lack of government involvement.

Not true. These are vouchers that go to the parents to be used in any way they wish. That is not the same as giving money directly to the schools. Look at the GI Bill for educating vets as a parallel; that money went to the vets to use as they saw fit. They used the money at religious schools, technical schools, private schools, public schools - the schools had to answer to the vets, not to the gov't.

[ikanakattara]

Here's one big fat argument against vouchers for private religious schools - Islamic private schools full of students and teachers ready to go to 'jihad' against the United States. Do you want YOUR tax dollars paying for teaching the Koran - parts of which claims as religious principles that Jews and Christians should be subordinated to the total Islamic society under Islamic law? I don't.

[Maelstrom]

I hope that's the way the lawsuits play out...

However, Trust you me: There *will* be lawsuits to force private schools to submit to the state because of vouchers.