@Zaku Private schools here do fundraising and accept private donations because tuition and parish donations aren’t always enough to balance the expenses. We have one slightly elitist school here that has 100% college attendence and the highest ACT average in the entire city, which is significant for educational purposes.
As far as poor kids (I won’t acknowledge the racial portion) they have a lot of scholarships for private schools.
This:
“In August 2017, with bipartisan support, the House and Senate passed a comprehensive education funding bill that was signed into law by the governor. The law includes a provision for tax credit scholarships, which provide strong incentives for donors to support non-public school scholarships for low-income students in the state. Illinois students from low-income families may use these new scholarships to attend a non-public school of their choice.”
https://www.dio.org/schools/investinkids.html
Charter schools would allow your money to follow your child basically. So if you have a public school tax of 5%, but your child goes to a charter school, the charter school gets your tax money.
It’s ALL about the quality of education! Many of us vote for school taxes every time, even if we have no children. Last night we just passed another two taxes for the community college, actually.