Should taxpayer dollars be used to fund private education?

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Originally Posted by Beestie

What Fairfax County did, and its public school system is already very good, is create a magnet school within the system to send the best and brightest to.

Austin has done that with several schools. Except they turned it around--they declared the worst schools to be "magnet schools" to lure the bright kids to transfer in. That, plus strategically rearranging their students with complex bussing (kids on one side of town go to a school on the other side) they've ended up with a bunch of mediocre schools and no really good or really terrible ones. Which is one form of success, I guess.