If public education were failing, vouchers would abet, not reverse, the trend. Vouchers will help inner-city youth escape failing public schools. A Harvard study, looking at Wisconsin, concluded that school choice programs leave city kids worse off. Parents who send their children to private schools pay double school taxes. In reality, private school tuition is voluntary and is not a tax.
Vouchers are the best way to improve public schools.
To improve public education, failing schools should be fixed, not gutted. Transferring public money to private schools means less resources for public schools. The school voucher plan is not good public policy for America. We don't need to subsidize and encourage divisiveness in our society by allowing the private school lobby greater access to the public purse, whether directly or indirectly. United for Separation of Chuch and State .