School vouchers has been and remains the best solution.
It gives parents / the customer the power.
No one gives a shit unless you hold the power of the purse! Want to see that in action, go to your local USPS office or a VA hospital.
Vouchers scare the public schools and the teachers union.
Imagine that, you need to compete in a market place. That sounds almost unAmerican today.
Today we have government that instead of applying the Sherman Act is working on behalf of big tech, pharma, public schools (de facto monopoly) etc.
Where is the US government regards Google (92.47% of the global market share)? Where was the US government with Microsoft years ago?... Crickets. Today, the US government is in bed with them, having liason officers, providing a little help early on as with Google because they see it as a huge intel opportunity... So government is NOT going to fix this because they benefit from the staus quo, and that is also true with public schools and the massive amount of money that comes in from taxes which they get to manage!
Ironically, it’s not the rich that are imapcted much by paying for a private education, but the middle and lower economic classes for whom $12,000 a year for a private school per kid is a lot.
The school voucher should be for all - fair (no means testing). It promotes competition (quality and efficiency) and caters to the customer (market demands). Unlike the schools today that are basically managed centralized between the federal and state government and really do not offer much in terms of catering to their customers, the voucher would create a more decentralized approach, more diversity (liberals should love that!). It’s actually a simplification of the system.
Agree.