I suppose the other possibility is the program might be designed in a way that each kid child being educated in a neighbouring district comes with a transfer of

I suppose the other possibility is the program might be designed in a way that each kid child being educated in a neighbouring district comes with a transfer of tax funds. If the transfer is larger than necessary to educate the child then districts would be interested in competing for students and will make quality improvements to do so. I may revisit my position on OE based on this. I am coming around to the idea that well designed OE programs could work. I think the “well designed” is key though as poorly designed programs can do a lot of harm by lowering the quality of education across the board.