Vouchers still keep government involved in education. In lieu of or, more likely) in addition to vouchers, I would like to see some grass roots, parent led, K-12 school and district level reform efforts undertaken that would sweep out entrenched bureacracy in local school administration and at the school board level, to be replaced by people whose interests are focused on the student and today's curricula requirements. Granted, the structural obstacles they would face would be near insurmountable, but doable with local persistance. All it would take is one school in one district to serve as a prototypical model for others to follow and the whole thing could, in time, be turned around. Not so pollyannaish if driven by people who have had all they can take and have the time to take such a long-term task on. Might even be able to find some local corporate funding to support such efforts so the drivers would not be faced with working one or two jobs AND undertaking educational reform. It's been done before this way and can be done again