I like the suggestion I heard recently of a way around the Constitutional barriers to school vouchers. How about giving poor families housing vouchers that would allow families to move from inner city neighborhoods to the Park Cities or Plano or Frisco or any other place that offers a better way of life? That way, their children would not only escape underperforming schools, they would escape underperforming neighborhoods as well.
If advocates of school vouchers really have the children's interest at heart, they should jump at the opportunity to provide poor children with the advantages of living in middle class or wealthy neighborhoods: not only good schools, but safe streets as well. Of course, if all they are really interested in is weakening public schools or draining off public school funds to subsidize their own tuition payments to private academies, then this suggestion is not likely to appeal to them.
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