School-choice advocates are celebrating election wins in Texas. It now looks as if next year, Texas will move from being a state with no private educational-choice programs to having universal school choice. Under universal school choice, every family will be eligible to receive state dollars for homeschool expenses or private-school tuition that would otherwise have gone to the public-school district where they live. Right now, Texas has no tax-credit or educational-savings-account programs at all; the only kind of school choice Texas has is among public schools, including public charter schools.
Most “red” states have been quickly adopting private-school-choice programs, given the visible problems that public schools have had since the pandemic, from staying closed for too long to pushing “woke” material in the classroom. But school choice was a difficult sell in the Texas legislature, and it remains so in several other Republican-controlled southern states.
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