Legislators in 27 states have introduced bills to enact or expand programs that would fund K-12 students as opposed to institutions. As of this writing, seven of these states—Iowa, Arizona, Missouri, Indiana, Kansas, South Dakota, and West Virginia—have already passed school choice legislation out of a chamber, and five others—Florida, Georgia, Montana, Idaho, and Oklahoma—have passed bills out of at least one committee.
https://reason.org/commentary/the-covid ... t-systems/
Interesting idea - fund the student vs the obviously failing, school system. Granted - there will be plenty of children that will continue to fall behind and fail to become academically proficient in basic math, grammar, etc... but giving the power (and money) to the individual to decide what is best for their family is interesting.
Of course, this opens up tax dollars being used for religious education(unless specifically restricted and we all know that the Red states doing this won't place those restrictions) and people will have qualms with that.
We already fund students directly when it comes to Pell Grants and the GI Bill for higher education. The same goes for taxpayer-funded pre-K programs such as Head Start. Food stamps and Medicaid funding similarly go to families who have a choice of where they want to spend their grocery and health care budgets.
We should apply the same logic to K-12 education and fund students, not systems.
I do find it difficult to argue against that logic.
https://reason.org/data-visualization/s ... d-funding/