The Libertarian Party who is committed by ideology to eliminating public education. Public school performance varies greatly from district to district and from school to school. Private schools are academically superior. Surveys show that most private school students do not score much higher on standardized tests than pupils in public schools. According to Money magazine, private schools rank no better scholastically than comparable public schools.
Private schools can operate at less cost.
Public schools must take every child and therefore have the expenses of programs for physically, emotionally and mentally challenged students, while private schools can pick and choose whom they admit and keep. Vouchers will improve public education through competition. Additional voucher money, combined with the ability to choose more gifted or less disruptive students, would create an uneven playing field favoring private schools. Tuition vouchers produce vendor choice, not consumer choice. If public education were failing, vouchers would abet, not reverse, the trend.