What is fair about a policy that claims to be "school choice" for parents and their children that is actually "school's choice" on who they want to admit? What's fair about taking public money from a system that requires several levels of accountability, testing and reporting to give it to another system that requires none of that?
The argument against this is that it is WRONG! That it can do nothing but hurt public schools. Are you trying to claim this will make public schools better? If so, that's more absurd yet. And my only assertion about parochial schools is they should not be receiving public funding. I don't give a shit whether they improve or decline - that's on those who donate to them.
I have no idea what you're trying to say with "And if we get equal outcomes in public schools post new law, with less money as you claim, but I don’t concede, then who cares?".
LOL - you want all the students to have a stellar education yet you advocate for a small, small percentage of students to change to private school at massive costs to the taxpayer. The beneficiaries of this policy are not new students, it's the religious organizations who will raise their tuition and the families already sending their students to private school who will now get a discount.
Public education has problems serving low income areas of our state. There are great successes in the higher income areas. This is not a coincidence. Private schools serve higher income families for the most part yet they are no better than the higher income public schools. They are a fine option for those who choose to send their children there (and are accepted) but geeting additional funding at the expense of public schools is wrong.
This policy is already an abject failure. How many new students are attending private school now? At what cost? Do that math and you'll see one of the reasons why.