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Allow me to elaborate on the cost issue:
Private schools would end up costing the state less. Why? Because they do not have any political power.
In many areas, the public Education System holds parents over a barrel. They can get away with gross mismanagement of funds, overpaying upper administration, ect...because they can manipulate the political process (either to a small or large degree, depending on the area) and get extra funding when they want it. To the public school system, your money is their money, and they feel entitled to it even if they cant deliver results.
By contrast, private schools must compete with each other, and have no control over the level of funding. They might be able to campaign to have voucher limits raised (more taxes) but they have to do so indirectly. They must make what use of the (finite) voucher money they can.
Why is this relevant? Because they do not have the luxury of a bottomless pit of funding that the Public Schools think they have. They wont hire Admins making a billion dollars a year, because they simply cant do that and still make a profit. Their money will HAVE to go towards teachers, because the teachers will be the main lure for more business...not the administrators. teachers will = more students. more students will = more vouchers. More vouchers will = more $$$.
The end result will be increased efficiency. Right now, the Public Schools have no real incentive to be efficient. Private schools will have no choice but to become at LEAST as efficient as the public schools if they want to stay in business. The Public School efficiency level will be the new LOW bar, not the high bar.
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