The number of participating families is about to increase exponentially. Wisconsin is at the cutting edge of school reform. Some might complain that sending money to religious schools is un-American, that it violates the separation of church and state. But we do it all the time. In higher education, we already have school choice.
Students can go to all sorts of schools at public expense.
Using the G.I Bill, Pell Grants, the New York State Tuition Grant program, and various other government programs, millions of Americans have been educated at public, private, and religious colleges and universities. A student can use the G.I. Bill or a Pell Grant to go to Yeshiva University and become a rabbi or go to Georgetown and become a Catholic theologian. Or he might go to the University of Wisconsin and become a communist. Nobody complains about this, and soon nobody will complain when the same mechanism of choice extends to K-12th grade. It s a matter of social justice.