These Three States Could Join 33 Others to Allow School Choice

Voters in Colorado, Kentucky, and Nebraska will get to choose between allowing public funds to be used for private schools — or not.

The Daily Signal reported that voters in Colorado and Kentucky will decide whether to amend their state constitutions. The amendment in Colorado states that each “K-12 child has the right to school choice.”

Kentuckians will vote YES or NO on whether to give the legislature explicit authority to use taxpayer funding for children “outside the system of common schools.”

Nebraska voters will decide whether to keep or repeal a scholarship policy that prioritizes children in poverty and foster care. Governor Jim Pillen signed the bill into law in May. But opponents are trying to crush the dream for families in distressed zip codes. The anti-school choice faction gathered enough signatures to put the issue on the ballot.

As education expert Corey DeAngelis has said, taxpayers’ money set aside for education doesn’t belong to the schools. The money is for educating students. He frequently says that we should fund students, not systems.

Star Parker wrote last week about educational freedom. She said that the “culture of meaninglessness and moral relativism, and the absence of absolutes in right and wrong, are destroying our kids and their education as it is our whole country.”

Star added that things must change, but something big stands in the way of change: the control of government in education and the control of teachers unions.

According to EdChoice, 33 states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico allow school choice. Hopefully, voters in Colorado, Kentucky, and Nebraska will join these states and choose to give families the option to place their kids in better schools.

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