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“The trouble is that the pre-school model doesn’t work in urban areas.”

So what? Subways and buses don’t work well in suburban and rural areas, but that doesn’t stop States and FedGov from subsidizing them – with non-urban tax dollars. The fact that a solution doesn’t solve every problem doesn’t invalidate it. Ineffective public education is a universal problem. Every action that at least ameliorates the problem, contributes to the solution. Finally, consider how much of the “doesn’t work” aspect of voucher programs’ performance in cities is due to the efforts of the unions to make them fail.