Here’s a video showing how choice is giving parents better options.
The good news is not limited to Arizona.
In an article for the Daily Signal, Jason Bedrick shares data showing how the number of kids directly benefiting from school choice has skyrocketed in recent years.
As you can see, a slow and steady increase, followed by a big jump in recent years thanks to all the states that have enacted choice programs since the pandemic (thank you, teacher unions, for being so bad that parents finally revolted!).
Here’s some of what Jason wrote in the article.
…the school choice movement is on the cusp of hitting a major milestone. By the end of 2025, it is likely that more than half of K-12 students nationwide will be eligible for private school choice. In the past five years, the number of students benefitting from school choice has more than doubled. …In the past five years, the number of states with a publicly funded universal school choice policy has increased from zero to 11. Additionally, Montana has a privately funded tax credit scholarship policy for which all students are eligible, and more than 95% of Indiana students are eligible for a school voucher. …Lawmakers in Georgia, Indiana, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wyoming are considering expanding eligibility for their education choice policies to all students. Additionally, lawmakers in Idaho, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Texas are considering new choice policies. Several of these states are considering universal choice policies. …This could be the tipping point for school choice because it will normalize the concept. …As voters see that students are thriving in states that replaced the district-school monopoly with a system of parental choice, opponents of choice will be deprived of their most effective argument.
Let’s close with a tweet Jason shared about the momentum for school choice.
P.P.S. Getting rid of the Department of Education in Washington would be a good idea, but the battle for school choice is largely won and lost on the state and local level.
Dan Mitchell is co-founder of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity and Chairman of the Board. He is an expert in international tax competition and supply-side tax policy.
