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Bush 43 tried having nantional standards and instituted profiency tests with no child left behind. Due to there being consequences for poorly performing schools and teachers, Obama capitulated to the teachers union and switched to letting the states determine tests and standards. Public school teachers may want what's best for students but the teachers union does not.
And now we have the insane voucher scheme that will further erode the average educational standards across the country.
If a public school performs poorly they get more money, if a voucher school performs poorly they get closed. In my area voucher schools perform better than public schools and cost half as much.
Affluent white area by any chance?
And those religious "schools" that don't have to confirm to standards. Sure they are churning out real productive, fully functioning adults.
That's the one area where public schools outperform private in my area. The less wealthy the neighborhood the more likely private schools do better.
A requirement for accepting state money is standards have to be met. Private highschool graduates have higher ACT scores, higher acceptence rates into college, higher college graduation rates.
That's because private schools act as a filter for the families that can afford them. Kids from poorer families are more likely to have an unstable home life, insufficient access to meals outside of school lunches, and other things which are the biggest factors in educational success. The voucher system takes funding from the public schools used by the poorest kids and gives it to the private schools used by families that could already afford to go elsewhere.
Private schools can also arbitrarily accept/reject students which gives them an advantage in outcome metrics.
The vouchers in my area pay for all tutition for private school for low and middle income families. There is no tutition cost for families. It lets low income families escape failing schools.