More administrative freedom for school principals is orthogonal to vouchers. I'm all about charter schools in theory, and still am much of the time in practice

More administrative freedom for school principals is orthogonal to vouchers. I'm all about charter schools in theory, and still am much of the time in practice, but often the way the funding is structured is ridiculous. Back when I was in local politics, a charter school opened up in our town. For every kid who enrolled, we had to pay the charter school more than we were paying to educate the kid ourselves. AND bus them there, presumably to add insult to injury. So I'm a little suspicious of vouchers and charter schools even though they instinctively sound like good ideas to me.