Contract with private schools. When Rod Paige, superintendent of Schools in Houston, Texas, ran out of space for students, he didn't ask taxpayers to pay for new schools. Instead, he contracted with a private school to enroll the overflow. Other communities in Texas, Virginia, and New Jersey are contemplating doing the same thing. So long as parents are free to choose the schools their children attend, there is no constitutional barrier to participate by religious schools.
Surveys show large majorities of parents favor school choice.
Every one of these recommendations has been tried and is working somewhere in the United States. Joeseph L. Bast is President of the Heartland Institute. Reprinted with permission from the author.