re: Where has the Voucher System been effective exactly?

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Sadly a large number of these schools are hastily organized store front enterprises designed to make a quick buck and often teaching some quack religious curriculum.

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Part of this in BR is due to the regulations on the vouchers. For instance, private schools are not allowed to interview and offer admission to voucher students. The school must tell the State how many voucher students the school can take and then the State selects the student.

Top notch private schools aren't going to allow that. It needs to be a true "hands off" approach by government.

And the willingness of parents to send their kids to hastily created schools does not speak well to the state of public education in our area.

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often teaching some quack religious curriculum.

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Same argument as my English prof. She claimed she didn't want her taxpayer dollars going toward a kid's education on how Adam and Eve rode around the Garden of Eden on the backs of dinosaurs. I told her I didn't want my money to end up going toward somebody's "Lesbian Dance Theory" classes, not because I think there's anything wrong with homosexuality, but because I think it is a pointless class. I then explained to her that yes, shite does sometimes happen. Deal with it. (Still have an A in there.)