the voucher program creates the best of the best in education
The voucher programs tred around the country have proven to be a failure time and time again. You can change a student's location, you can change the teachers, and you can change what the student wears to school, but until you change what is between that child's ears, nothing is going to make them successful.
A "C" level student at PS102 is probably still going to be a "C" level student if they get a voucher to Our Lady of Perpetual Motion Catholic school. Will some kids do better? Of course, but the general results will not be worth the damage to the public school's funding.
The real purpose of vouchers is so that Dr. Ben Dover, Proctologist to the Stars, can send his kid to St. Joseph's of Aspirin Catholic High School to play on the perennial state championship football team without having to shell out $12,000 in tuition each year.
I did my Master's work on this in Florida looking at the voucher system. Do you know how many private high schools in our county accepted the state's vouchers? Zero. Not a single one. The schools could not afford to lose about $5000 -$7000 per student that transferred in from a public school. Not the private Academy School, not the Country Day School, not the Christian School, not the Episcopal School, not the two Catholic Schools, and not even the Islamic Madrassa School.
Dr. Ben Dover took it in the shorts on that deal! He had to treat himself after he got reamed.