Require school districts with graduation rates below two-thirds to offer tuition vouchers, and also allow voters or school boards in any school district to approve voucher plans with a minimal number of signatures. Mandate teacher testing in academic subjects. Allowing indirect funding may be a less obvious violation of the First Amendment, but it is no less unconstitutional. There is no question that tax dollars will eventually flow to church-run schools since 85 percent of private schools in Michigan are parochial. The argument you'll hear most often from voucher supporters is that vouchers would give parent's a choice.
Parents already have the right to choose a religious education for their children.
Taxpayers should not be expected to pay for that choice. Vouchers offer no guarantee of admission. Vouchers require no change in a school's admission policy. Private schools don't have to admit students or can discriminate on the basis of disability, IQ, achievement scores, income, gender, religion, or sexual orientation. They don't have to offer special education services and most, in fact, do not.