This state just reclaimed the school choice crown

Florida led the nation on school choice for decades, at least until West Virginia and Arizona seized the school choice crown by passing universal school choice legislation in 2021 and 2022, respectively.

For a brief moment, those states stood as premier examples of education freedom. But their victory might as well have been the starting gun. Since then, three other states – Iowa, Utah, and Arkansas - enacted universal school choice legislation, and a race to provide more opportunities to students in red states begun.

Florida, which long boasted the nation’s broadest, most widely used school choice programs, just returned with a vengeance and took back the top spot.