Absolutely. The current move in many states to tie funds to "students not systems" has the devil in the details. Homeschoolers take the funds and can only spend on accredited programs. The accreditation bodies are the source of much of this evil, and what few aren't yet are easily captured. Everything Friedman said about vouchers has been undermined by accreditors; those institutions and school baords and recommenders are no different than the FDA in terms of regulatory capture. We'd have been safer with no agency at all. The same is true for education.

We successfully got rid of orphanages (for better or worse.) and replaced with a foster system. Public funded schools should only be schools of last resort for kids without any parental units. No money for schools at all, and only school-foster kids get vouchers given to families to school them however they wish. Yes this sounds absurd but so was the invention of state run schools. Had the mid and western US states come into being at any other point in history, they wouldn't have written public ed into their state constitutions.