Ahh, my apologies.
I think what we should do is this:
Take 5 states or so with a wide disparity in sizes, populations, climate, etc... and see what happens when we have:
Full school choice via voucher
Partial school choice via voucher
Make no changes whatsoever
Full choice states:
DE, NY, AZ, IL, MS
Partial choice states:
MA, WY, TX, WA, MT
Keep the same:
N/A
Let the systems run for 10 years and then see how it works. You could also do this with school districts and by regions within states (they don't have to be entire states if that is too radical for the local pols). At the end of 10 years, see where the states, districts, regions stack up against one another. The key is to have the experiment and see what happens. The modeling that is done is probably all done in good faith but nothing substitutes like having the rubber hit the road.
I frankly would like to see structural changes made to public schools before we start tinkering with them though and try that first. I can see shipping your daughter across town to play Westside High in a volley ball match but sending her 3-400 miles away to play a school that you've never heard of? No. It's crazy. A co-worker of mine sent her daughter 300 miles away to go to a cheer leading competition. Crazy. No way we should be spending money on that as a society.
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