National School Choice Week: Why It Was a Success

Lindsey Burke / January 28, 2011

Like high school or college graduation, the end of National School Choice Week marks the commencement of a nationwide push for parental control over education. All across America, parents and state and local leaders are pushing to increase the number of quality educational options available to children.

In Indiana, Governor Mitch Daniels is supporting a drive to provide vouchers to low-income children to attend a private school of their choice. Similarly, in Pennsylvania, there is bipartisan support for a plan to provide scholarships of up to $9,000 for low-income children to attend a private school of their choice. Plans are also underway to expand Pennsylvania’s Educational Improvement Tax Credit program, which provides tax credits to businesses that donate to scholarship-granting organizations, which in turn provide vouchers to children to attend schools that best meet their needs. (more…)