I googled about the California homeschool reimbursement scheme. It appears it works like this. Homeschoolers register with the school district, thereby becoming recognized as student being "taught" by the district. Consequently the district receives $5k per homeschooled student, gives each student $1k, and keeps the other $4k.
In other words, it's a revenue capturing scheme, that gives the homeschooler some incentive to be involved. Of course, exactly the same thing could be said about virtual schools.
I would prefer a system that
directly funded some homeschooling expenses, without homeschoolers being used as pawns in various schemes to siphon off taxpayer money.
