I saw you emerge onto the dead bird app and proceed to get into a couple of school voucher related flaps, and I found myself in the not-unusual position of wanting to say something and being too lazy to boil it down to tweet-sized construction ("Too lazy to tweet about it" would make a good sub-heading for this blog).
Another issue with access is geography. If you live in a more rural area, the only way you can access voucher schools is if your parents can transport you to and from every day. In Wisconsin, vouchers are currently income limited. Lower income people in urban areas use them, but not much in more rural areas. If they were to become universal here, the higher income rural families would access them but not the lower income families because for most of them, daily transportation would be a hurdle. It would be interesting to look at states with universal vouchers and how enrollment varies by location as well as income.
Another issue with access is geography. If you live in a more rural area, the only way you can access voucher schools is if your parents can transport you to and from every day. In Wisconsin, vouchers are currently income limited. Lower income people in urban areas use them, but not much in more rural areas. If they were to become universal here, the higher income rural families would access them but not the lower income families because for most of them, daily transportation would be a hurdle. It would be interesting to look at states with universal vouchers and how enrollment varies by location as well as income.