re: Always goes back to vouchers
The one thing you should notice is that the situation you describe is the way things are right now, under the present system. How's that working out?
The endless mantra of any failed government program is that it would surely work if we just shoved another few billion dollars down the rathole. No doubt your solution for this "South side" school is some huge Federal grant that will somehow rebuild everything, pay teachers and others to live and work someplace they'd rather not, and make everything okay.
Anybody remember "urban renewal?" Same theory. You heard a lot about how great this idea was when I was younger. Not so much, now.