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   Milton Friedman, a School-Choice Visionary   
   Letters, April 10, 2023, WSJ   
   William McGurn gives proper credit to Milton Friedman for the wave of states   
   enacting universal school choice policies (“Milton Friedman’s   
   Revolution,” April 4). Friedman wasn’t the only public intellectual to   
   propose school-choice in the 20th    
   century, but his vision more than any other’s has driven the recent   
   successes.   
      
   Until recently, most school-choice policies in 32 states more closely   
   resembled the proposals by academics that offered targeted vouchers to   
   low-income families or other needy populations in order to advance   
   “equity.” Low-income families often can’   
   t afford to rent or buy homes in communities with high-performing public   
   schools or pay for private-school tuition. School vouchers, the argument went,   
   should empower the neediest families through educational opportunity.   
      
   Friedman argued that these “charity vouchers” had “served their limited   
   purpose well,” but he had a grander vision in mind. Limited choice policies   
   “could not provide the kind of market needed to stimulate innovative   
   experimentation.” That    
   would require making school choice “available to all students regardless of   
   income or race or religion.”   
      
   “Sooner or later,” Friedman predicted in the Journal in 2005, “there   
   will be a breakthrough; we shall get a universal voucher plan in one or more   
   states. When we do, a competitive private educational market serving parents   
   who are free to choose    
   the school they believe best for each child will demonstrate how it can   
   revolutionize schooling.”   
      
   The breakthrough finally has arrived. In the past two years, six states   
   enacted education choice policies that are now available to all K-12 students,   
   or soon will be. Friedman’s revolution is under way.   
   ---Jason Bedrick, Heritage Foundation, Phoenix AZ   
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   Discussions on school choice usually center around politics, teachers unions   
   and students. Seldom mentioned is the benefit of an educated public to society.   
      
   We need an educated population, regardless of how we get there. Public,   
   private or home school, it doesn’t matter. Results are what is important.   
   ---Ed Paulis, Parkville MD   
      
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