CTL > an attempt to keep expenditures down and local property taxes down.
We should be able to find a healthy compromise – with gov maintaining some legit standards and parents getting what their kids need without becoming dhimmis (in terms of double taxation for education). Experience you quoted sound healthy – you attended quality public school and yeshiva. I think this approach would not fit a lot of Jewish community our days in terms of mixing with a wrong crowd, though. Vouchers combined with testing should work – provide funds to any educational institution where children can pass tests on reading, righting, rithmetics and civics. If Lakewood board is control by frum public, could they do something like that rather than just cutting the funds? The latter means that you’ll be surrounded by uneducated population creating crime and other problems.
I found online public schools a good, if not perfect, tool – reasonable education, not much unneeded socialization. This will fit, estimated, 5-10% of population, but also not nothing.