[tokenadult]

School != School. Shop around before you reinvent.

I've studied the Dutch regulatory model of schooling quite thoroughly since the early 1990s, when I first learned about it. Few Americans have the pervasive power to shop for different varieties of schools that all Dutch parents have by the Constitution of the Netherlands.

http://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED316478

[wybo]

True. It is a nice system we have (no school districts + full government funding for all schools based on nr of pupils they attract; also for denominational & other types of education on an equal basis (as long as test-results are okish)).

Allows 'the market' for good education to operate, without bringing money into the equation.