Last week, North Dakota was poised to become the 17th state to make every K-12 student eligible for school choice. Instead, the failure of Gov. Kelly Armstrong and state legislators to reach a compromise has left North Dakota families in the cold.
The North Dakota legislature passed House Bill 1540, a bill to create a universal education savings account that would have empowered families with more education options. With the accounts, families could have used a portion of their child’s education funding for private school tuition, tutoring, textbooks, special needs services, or other approved educational expenses. The legislation would have put parents—not politicians and bureaucrats—in the driver’s seat regarding their children’s education.
Unfortunately for North Dakota families, Armstrong vetoed the measure.
The veto came as a surprise to many since the…
