Education Reform:As school choice initiatives around the country gather steam, a slew of new reports suggest what many reformers have said all along: It works!
On Friday, Nevada's legislature sent a universal Education Savings Account Bill to Gov. Brian Sandoval for signing, the second major piece of school choice legislation to reach his desk.
No word yet whether he'll sign the bill, but he should. It's a school-reform no-brainer.
Indeed, school-choice proposals are becoming increasingly common as state and local governments seek ways to improve the performance of failing schools without spending more money.
Too often it's a tough sell, given the powerful opposition of teachers unions and anti-choice liberals, both of which like having a monopoly on your children's education. They've maintained school choice doesn't work, costs too much and is unfair to kids who stay behind in public schools.
A raft of new studies, however, shows that's not the case.
Enrollment in school-choice programs is surging across the country, from 29,003 in the 2001 school year to 245,854 in 2013.
"In the United States today, 56 different school-choice policies exist in 28 states plus the District of Columbia, and the number of choice policies has approximately doubled every four years from 2000 to 2012," wrote education analyst Patrick Wolf on the Heritage Foundation's Daily Signal blog.
This is the market speaking to the nation's most pernicious monopoly: education.
Parents want choice because choice means better education for their kids and, over time, better lives.Read the rest of the story HERE.
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