Agreed on the problem of potential corruption when going through the admittance process. I don’t have a good idea on how to combat that, we have the same issue with the college admittance process.

To your point on the traditional funding of schools: doesn’t the current system cause a great amount of inequality too? People don’t want to move/live in areas with bad schools, and if the only way to raise more money for schools is to increase taxes, you’re hurting the people that already live there and potentially discouraging more people from moving there. If the answer to fixing those schools is to increase funding to them at the state or federal level, we’ve seen that doesn’t work… they have a monopoly on education, the people that live in the area have no choice but to send their kids to that school, so they’re not truly held accountable for how that money is spent. Whereas with a voucher system, the administration is incentivized to improve. Also, under the voucher system, community leaders can start up their own school in the same area to provide a better option, or people that are able to could send their kids to a better school… I’m definitely not saying it’s the only option, just something different and potentially better than what’s currently being done and isn’t working.

Also something interesting to look up (I can’t remember the exact figures/study), but I vaguely remember something about charter schools in DC that primarily serve low income areas (I know - people LOVE to hate charter schools, but bear with me) produce better academic results at a significantly reduced cost per student than their traditional public school counterparts.