Now instead of drawing funds directly from the district, you're subsidizing private schools at the state level.
I send my son to catholic school for various reasons. It's my choice and my cost, and the school provides scholarships to help those less able.
In my state, only a few things common to all students are provided/funded by the state in private schools: non-religious textbooks, school nurses, some transportation and limited bussing to special education.
Personally, I'm comfortable with that model. I am uncomfortable with the state supporting any church, including my own.
> Now instead of drawing funds directly from the district, you're subsidizing private schools at the state level.
In California for instance, 57% of school funding comes directly from the state, so that's no change in funding source.
Personally, I don't see a difference between funding a religious school and a secular private school, both are capable of following a particular philosophical bent and applying it liberally or dogmatically.
To be honest, I think the idea that we can fund any philosophy except one that touches on cosmology (i.e. religion) is an unnatural discrimination against religion.
The results are very predictable -- you can look at what happens when religious adherents take over school districts. The public schools die.