Do a wide spectrum of Americans want school choice?
Yes, they do. Contrary to the myth propagated by teachers’ unions, school choice has a broad base of support across all points on the political spectrum and among people of all backgrounds. It’s true that the guardians of the education status quo have bought themselves a lot of influence in the Democratic Party. But more and more Democrats are seeing past the propaganda and realizing that the government school monopoly is the single biggest obstacle to their goals of social justice and empowerment of the poor. Milton Friedman himself said that “vouchers should have been a Democratic proposal.” In the past few years we have seen this trend bear fruit in the increasing number of Democratic politicians who support school choiceeither out of conviction or because too many of their own Democratic constituents are choice supporters for them to keep resisting it. The first high-profile instance was in 2004 when Congress enacted school vouchers for Washington D.C.
Yes, they do. Contrary to the myth propagated by teachers’ unions, school choice has a broad base of support across all points on the political spectrum and among people of all backgrounds. It’s true that the guardians of the education status quo have bought themselves a lot of influence in the Democratic Party. But more and more Democrats are seeing past the propaganda and realizing that the government school monopoly is the single biggest obstacle to their goals of social justice and empowerment of the poor. Milton Friedman himself said that “vouchers should have been a Democratic proposal.” In the past few years we have seen this trend bear fruit in the increasing number of Democratic politicians who support school choiceeither out of conviction or because too many of their own Democratic constituents are choice supporters for them to keep resisting it. The first high-profile instance was in 2004 when Congress enacted school vouchers for Washington D.C. with the support of both Demo
