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The ESA is the latest innovation in choice, and quite likely the most promising for bringing about enduring reform of K–12 education.

Children in our public schools are being pummeled with political correctness.

As Americans have slowly recovered from the now 10-year-old recession, enrollment in private schools has increased dramatically.

Another Veterans Day has come and gone. As nice as all the free doughnuts, meals, and haircuts were, even nicer was a simple statement—“Thank you for your service”—often tendered with a handshake.

Last month was National Dropout Prevention Month. The media has been eagerly reporting that high school graduation rates have reached a record high, though “incomplete or fuzzy” district data makes such claims questionable.

In April, the New Hampshire House of Representatives had a golden opportunity to do something heroic for Granite State kids by passing a universal education savings account (ESA) bill, but it flinched at the last minute and “retained” it in committee

Blaine amendments, borne out of 19th-century anti-Catholic bigotry, have been the constant bane of the modern education-choice movement.

Determined progress on the “civil rights issue of our time,” despite unfortunate Republican opposition.

National School Choice Week is held every January. This year’s event took place from January 24 – 30, 2016. Throughout the U.S. over 16,000 events were held, with Illinois having 918 events, the most of any state. Here in Illlinois, 300,000 take advantage of personal tax credits, a form of school choice. Illinois allows families to claim credits worth 25% of their educational expenses. Worthwhile checking out is A History of School Choice from 1923 to 2015.

In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Lennie Jarratt, project manager for education at the Heartland Institute, joins host Donald Kendal to discuss, among other topics, the difference between school choice and education choice.