I agree with John Hood?s Daily Journal published on today?s Carolina Journal website. If we want to find out how vouchers and government funded ?private? education would likely work in the U.S. we need only look to the rest of the world. And what the European experience shows is that if our goal is to destroy private schooling as we now know it, vouchers are the way to go. As a recent study of the Eurpean experience with so-called school choice, published by the Center for Education Policy concludes:

?We found that when private schools accept significant levels of public funding, they must comply with a rather high degree of government regulation. Countries that heavily subsidized private schools also regulate and inspect them in areas that many American private schools might find objectionable, such as course content, testing policies, student admissions, tuition levels, teacher hiring and salaries, and composition of governing boards…religious schools and other independently administered schools may be funded and monitored by the government. Sometimes they are even considered a part of the state education system.?

Of course, this is unlikely to happen in the U.S. because we will be vigilant.