School choice will soon hit a tipping point. If Texas enacts a universal school choice bill, as seems very likely, then more than half of K-12 students nationwide will be eligible for private school choice. Already this year, three states—Idaho, Tennessee, and Wyoming—have enacted new universal education choice policies or expanded existing ones to make all K-12 students eligible.
Three more states—New Hampshire, North Dakota, and Texas—are poised to join them. In all three states, each legislative chamber has passed some form of a universal choice bill, but as described below, the policies proposed in the House versions are preferable to those in the Senate versions.
The number of students benefiting from school choice has more than doubled in the past five years. There are now about 1.2 million K-12 students nationwide accessing the learning environment of…
