This Election Year, School Choice Is a Partisan Issue

Even though the presidential candidates haven’t discussed it much, school choice is an election-year issue in many parts of the nation. The ballots in Kentucky and Colorado this year allow voters to decide whether school choice, including taxpayer-funded private school vouchers, charter schools, homeschooling, and other alternatives, should be codified into their state constitutions. In Nebraska, voters will decide whether to repeal a 2023 law that funds private school tuition with taxpayer dollars, which has cost about $10 million. Referendum 435 notes the arguments for and against the current law. “Indeed, half of Nebraska’s 93 counties do not have a private school. Nebraska taxpayers cannot afford to fund two separate school systems,” says the section of the proposition explaining the pro-repeal position....