There is a major fallacy you've just raised about special needs kids. They're sent every day by public schools to private schools at taxpayer expense. In California alone this year, over 100,000 special education children will be educated in a private school, because the public school said that's what they wanted to happen. So please don't believe for a moment that public schools are handling all special needs, and no one else is. That's simply a fallacy.
Vouchers merely leave many with a worse choice, or no choice.
The poorest and the special needs kids are left behind in schools that are even more bound to fail. In addition, as we saw tonight in the show, the facilities and equipment in public schools are often far superior than what is provided in private schools. The public schools had the computers. The public schools had the science curriculum. Thank you very much for the provocative questions, and thank you to Ms. Allen for the provocative debate.