They move to neighborhoods with good schools. They can send their kids to private or parochial schools. Poor parents have no such choices. If their local schools are failing, their kids are trapped. Viteritti argues that, properly designed, it can and, to be fair to all, it should.
Preliminary indications are that student performance is strengthened.
The strongest backers of all are poor minorities. You can't miss the fact that these are the people vouchers would help. Overall, public opinion is shifting gradually toward vouchers, according to education expert Diane Ravitch, who suspects this may be attributable to despair over urban schools. I like to think that many city schools seem finally to be beginning to pull themselves from the swamp. States are instituting more rigorous standards, hiring better teachers and giving them more training, holding schools and teachers accountable and making results public.