pay !00% for special ed and poor children. One question: How are they going to monitor the use of this money to see that the children actually get what they need?

This will destroy public education there. Florida's done the special ed vouchers for years. Nightmare schools have opened and taken years for anyone to notice harm done.

I wrote oodles about this back in the early 2000's, hard to find the links now.

good system they have.

Personally, my high school is overcrowded. If it lost the payment for each student, it would be fine. That's the *state* support, and while the total loss is going to be greater (minus the federal support for the lost ADA enrollment) costs should also go down.

Remove 30 students, remove a section of a course and all the lab equipment/supplies/bandwidth/etc. that student would consume. At some point you lose cost savings due to scale, but that only would apply to small schools.

But other problems aren't just misspent funds. What happens if a student uses all the money in a legal way--for tutoring, supplies, etc.--and then wants to re-enroll in the public school? What if the money goes to some private school, pays for the first 3 months, and come December the kid's account's broke and the parent tries to enroll him?

Who's going to audit the expenses? Is a new computer a reasonable bit of equipment? How about Internet access? Easy to run through a good chunk of the cash that way.

that I ask is: does this state even care what happens to its children? Is this just a way to abandon them?