Other groups, too, had been claiming their pieces of the school-funding pie. Families who had always sent their kids to private schools were now getting voucher money to help with tuition, and public-school money was draining into ever more questionable alternatives. Some were not public. Others barely seemed like school: there were religious academies that didn’t allow gay kids, charter schools located inside private golf clubs, glorified homeschool setups whose students didn’t even take the TCUP test.
