After 47 years in both public and private education and educational data analysis, thanks for your clear article. Vouchers are an attack on a structure unique to America’s success. Free public education helped create American democratic strength despite its flaws, and vouchers have proven to be a source of the divide in society. They offer nothing democratic. The largest impetus to vouchers was among white conservatives and parents opposed to integration, a clearly racist response to Brown, and the conservative and Christian right desire to monetize schools and teach fundamentalist Christianity instead of freedom and equality.