This is a good resource for understanding the school choice issues facing us today.
Poison Drops in the Federal Senate: The school question from a parental and non-sectarian stand-point by Zach Montgomery
From Wikipedia:
“Although his widely published and forceful critiques of the compulsory public education system were never embraced by the public at large, his book Poison Drops in the Federal Senate (1886) is considered by some contemporary writers as a landmark study of the relevant issues.”