Schools are controlled primarily by state and local governments, which are not universally controlled by Democrats but split along typical red state/blue state lines:
Republican legislatures have shown they are quite capable of passing legislation about education that serves little purpose beyond a political agenda, as this year's crop of bills banning critical race theory shows (critical race theory being a graduate level discipline that is not taught in public secondary schools).
And bills like the voucher program you describe have been shown to have mixed results at best. If you live at the poverty line that West Virginia bill does not provide you any additional choice in your child's education, unless there are numerous private schools in West Virginia that charge $4600 or less in tuition, which I would not expect. Otherwise it's simply a transfer of funds away from public schools to middle and upper class families who were already leaning away from public education and the private (largely religious) institutions they prefer. If the intent was truly to provide school choice to all, they could end enrollment based on residence and allow low income families to choose to place their children in high performing schools in high income areas, but that kind of choice is not the intent of these programs.
https://www.ncsl.org/research/about-state-legislatures/parti...
Republican legislatures have shown they are quite capable of passing legislation about education that serves little purpose beyond a political agenda, as this year's crop of bills banning critical race theory shows (critical race theory being a graduate level discipline that is not taught in public secondary schools).
https://www.chalkbeat.org/22525983/map-critical-race-theory-...
And bills like the voucher program you describe have been shown to have mixed results at best. If you live at the poverty line that West Virginia bill does not provide you any additional choice in your child's education, unless there are numerous private schools in West Virginia that charge $4600 or less in tuition, which I would not expect. Otherwise it's simply a transfer of funds away from public schools to middle and upper class families who were already leaning away from public education and the private (largely religious) institutions they prefer. If the intent was truly to provide school choice to all, they could end enrollment based on residence and allow low income families to choose to place their children in high performing schools in high income areas, but that kind of choice is not the intent of these programs.