According to a Heritage Foundation survey, some form of school choice legislation was introduced or pending in 34 states during 1993, and at least 35 states now have grass-roots coalitions working for choice.
The Arizona legislature almost passed a statewide choice plan in 1994, and there’s a good chance that choice will make a comeback in 1995, especially if Governor Fife Symington is re-elected and House Education Committee chair Lisa Graham is elected superintendent of public instruction. Unfortunately, the pilot plan proposed in 1994 would provide vouchers to only 8,000 Arizona children by the year 2000. A choice bill supported by several Democratic legislative leaders in Connecticut was defeated in the House on a tie vote in April and will probably not come up again this year.
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