jim rozen wrote:...
Malcolm Kirkpatrick says...

MK. The State has several options: 1) regulate, 2) leave eligibility
criteria to accreditation agencies, 3) test students at the begining
and end of the school year, and pay for performance. Or 4) let parents
decide which institution shall receive the taxpayers' K-12 education
subsidy.

They will regulate no matter what. This is a given.

MK. Not at all. The question was whether school vouchers will prompt
State regulation of heretofore independent and parochial schools. If
that State has not yet regulated them at the level which would prevent
enactment of school vouchers, there is no reason to suppose that it
will regulate independent schools, post voucher. It --could--, but it
doesn't have to. As I point out, the State could leave eligibility
criteria to accreditation agencies.

MK. The most effective accountability mechanism humans have yet
invented is the ability of unhappy customers to take their business
elsewhere.

And yet, this is exactly how the education business works
right *now*. Some folks do take their business elsewhere.
Vouchers won't change that.

MK. School vouchers would most certainly expand the range of options
available to parents, and the number of parents taking options outside
the NEA/AFT/AFSCME cartel.