Oh, What a Year It’s Been for School Choice!

It’s been an excellent year for school choice! 2021 has rightly been called a “breakthrough year” and “The Year of School Choice,” as 18 different states enacted seven new school choice programs and worked to expand 21 existing programs. And 2022 may prove to be even better!

What’s really impressive is that school choice is celebrating its best year ever—even in the midst of a global pandemic. The bottom line: school choice is expanding because it is popular. And whether we were talking private school, charter school, homeschool, vouchers or opportunity scholarships—you’ve been here for it!

Here are 14 school choice stories you couldn’t get enough of this year.

Families Voting With Their Feet

Laura Waters broke down the data that demonstrated a 3% decrease in public school enrollment from school years 2019-2020 to 2020-2021, as more than one million parents opted for charter schools, private schools, or homeschool.