jim rozen wrote:...

MK. Discussion deleted...

...what do you do with the kids who spend their subsidy
and then run of voucher money half way through the year?

MK. There are a couple of ways to accommodate this objection: 1) the
State can pay tuition on a month-by-month basis (and in most school
voucher plans, the State pays the tuition subsidy to a school, not to
parents), or the State could require that school districts --hire
parents--, on personal service contracts to provide for their
children's education. Make payment contingent on performance at or
above age-level expectations on standardized tests of reading and
math. Make payment equal to some fraction 1/2 a/b 1 of the
district's per-pupil cost. Test at the end of the school year. I agree
that this limits the options of really por parents, but it probides
performance and financial accountability, and gives parents a wide
range of options. They can homeschool, hire tutors, or send kids to a
private of parchial school.

And, how do you handle the entanglement that vouchers are going
to cause between state funding and religious schools?

MK. I don't worry much about them. Just bar schools which advocate
criminal activity. Most parents will want their children to grow into
responsibility.

...Who's driving this thing now, the state or the diocese?

MK. Motivation? There's probably a wide variety.

Take care. Homeschool if you can.