An exciting opportunity has emerged from the damage inflicted on students from the extended COVID public school shutdowns and school curriculum controversies.  Forward-looking lawmakers across the country have responded to the learning needs of children by giving them access expanded school choice funding.

The popularity of school choice is growing fastest in the South and Southeast. These laws give families public aid to customize the education program for their children, in a homeschool or in a private school, whichever is the best fit for the students.  

School choice laws fulfill the vision of the conservative economist Milton Friedman and of left-leaning academics like Theodore Sizer and Phillip Whitten.  Both sides agree choice produces the best learning results for children.

Liberal cities like Washington, D.C. and Baltimore already offer their families access, with low-income minority parents sending their children to private religious schools with this assistance.