Senate approves bill for private school vouchers

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3. Oh, the problems continue.

Personally, my high school is overcrowded. If it lost the payment for each student, it would be fine. That's the *state* support, and while the total loss is going to be greater (minus the federal support for the lost ADA enrollment) costs should also go down.

Remove 30 students, remove a section of a course and all the lab equipment/supplies/bandwidth/etc. that student would consume. At some point you lose cost savings due to scale, but that only would apply to small schools.

But other problems aren't just misspent funds. What happens if a student uses all the money in a legal way--for tutoring, supplies, etc.--and then wants to re-enroll in the public school? What if the money goes to some private school, pays for the first 3 months, and come December the kid's account's broke and the parent tries to enroll him?

Who's going to audit the expenses? Is a new computer a reasonable bit of equipment? How about Internet access? Easy to run through a good chunk of the cash that way.