Starting this fall, thousands of poor and middle-class kids will get vouchers covering the full cost of tuition at more than 120 private schools across Louisiana, including small, Bible-based church schools.


Every time a student receives a voucher of either type, his local public school will lose a chunk of state funding.

The hope obviously is that this policy will be cost neutral - if not favor private schooling by reducing the number of over-compensated public (unionized) teachers needed. Governor Jindal had this to say:

"We are changing the way we deliver education," said Governor Bobby Jindal, a Republican who muscled the plan through the legislature this spring over fierce objections from Democrats and teachers unions. "We are letting parents decide what's best for their children, not government."
6079 Smith, W: Gov. Jindal Spanks Teachers Union (http://derek-alexander.blogspot.com/2012/06/another-success-at-state-level.html)

They had to do something. Their state ranks 49th.