School Vouchers In Clark County Schools: No

There has much talk, especially in conservative circles in Nevada, about having vouchers in the state of Nevada and Clark County in particular. As a conservative, I support vouchers, but in this case, I do not.
As an aside, I am a CCSD teacher, but any voucher program would not effect me, as I am a teacher of severely disabled students and there is no private school that would take my students.
In general, I support competition in schools and I think anybody should be able to go to whatever school they want to go to, using a voucher. This is especially true with minorities living in a inner city area. I support vouchers in Milwaukee, where I was a teacher and in Washington D.C., where the liberals in Congress kicked a bunch of minority kids out of private schools and into the pig stye of school district, the D.C. school district. (thanks Harry, Shelly and Dina for sticking up for those kids- not)
In Clark County, we have a different situation. first, our school district is not that bad for an urban school that is very large. CCSD made AYP (Annual Yearly Progress) this past year, one of the very few large school districts that actually made AYP. For those students who attend school and are not trouble makers, those kids will generally get a very good education. If they want it. Granted, not every school is perfect and there are bad teachers and administrators in the district, but the vast majority of teachers and employees are very good.
Next, and this is my biggest opposition to the voucher program in Clark County, is that there are not enough seats in the private school sector that can accept thousands of students in a voucher program.
Clark County has very few religious schools. Heck, in the county where I used to live, Wood County in Wisconsin,- population about 40,000, they had more Catholic Schools and Lutheran schools than they do in all of Clark County. Clark County just does not have the number of private schools to serve a voucher population.
Of course, the alternative is that a bunch of private schools might spring up. In Milwaukee, this happened, and all they were was some schools in a strip mall or a run down building in the inner city. The "principals" of these schools were just after the money that the state would throw at them. Don't get me wrong, the existing schools, that had a good history, did a good job and most of those students in those schools did a good job and improved their behavior and their test scores. But the difference between Clark County and Milwaukee is that the school district in Milwaukee really, really sucks and still do and CCSD does not. Also, in Milwaukee, they had a large number of private schools in existence that could take voucher students and Clark County does not.
CCSD needs to improve, I have no question about that, but it is not a very horrible school district like Milwaukee and Washington D.C. and they need to have room for voucher students to make a voucher program successful. Clark County private schools do not have the space for voucher students.
While vouchers is generally a good idea, in Clark County, it is not a good idea, at least, not at this time.