Enablers of the government-school establishment insist that vouchers are dangerous for education. Yet vouchers (or their equivalents) are used all the time, and not merely in the well-known cases of Milwaukee and Cleveland.

Writing for the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, Patrick B. McGuigan offers a few ways in which taxpayer dollars serve the public purpose by being sent to private entities, some of whom are even religious in nature or seek a profit.

Public money makes its way to private institutions in Head Start in the early years, special education providers in the K-12 years, and privately owned colleges in the post-secondary years.

He concludes, "let’s make no mistake about this: Whether it’s educating toddlers or twenty-somethings, public dollars flow to private schools all the time." And the world has not ended. Neither has "public education" in the sense of government-run schools. If we wish to advance education and not merely sustain institutions, we ought to expand on the use of private institutions.