re: Where has the Voucher System been effective exactly?

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School choice allows personalized matching of school strengths with student interest and capability. That enhances performance. It also encourages student-parent buy-in. That is how schools are effective.

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You don't understand the history of school by making this statement

Schools were once only choice, with many parents not choosing to educate their children. Then one day a group of elitists had their outing ruined by inner city Jews, Italians, blacks and Irishmen who were running the streets being delinquents

So the mortified elites started the quest for public schools

Since public schools began, everyone in town knew which schools were the "good" schools, and which were opened just to corral the masses. And that system served as the best model in the world. Until . . .

The fed said "wait a minute", these kids are segregated by neighborhood. Well, duh. People that cared, busted their asses to move to the other side of the tracks. So we got forced busing. Standards fell, achievement fell, discipline became ungovernable. And private schools exploded. The question became, how do we get the masses into these good private schools. We have no right to force them to be bused in . . .

So now the catch phrase is no longer busing, its vouchers. With the predictable same result