[jbooth]

The problem with vouchers is that they effectively de-fund public schools in the way they're implemented. Private schools will take the best students, hurting the school's funding next year and leaving them with a per-capita more expensive student base. Plus, the private schools create other burdens on the town without paying for them (parking, bussing, policing, etc).

Maybe democrats should be a little less hardline but just expanding vouchers willy-nilly won't fix anything about the opportunity gap facing kids today.