School Choice Loses Legislative Momentum

With some exceptions, most voucher bills fail following flurry of action.

So much for school choice advocates’ banner year in state legislatures.

Even with Utah’s adoption of vouchers for students with disabilities, and with enactment of school choice measures still plausible in Arizona and Ohio, 2005 hasn’t brought the strong showing that school choice supporters predicted it would.

Lawmakers in Florida, Indiana, Missouri, South Carolina, and other states shot down prominent bills that would have created or expanded major programs...