For today’s column, let’s celebrate progress in the Sunshine State. Here are some excerpts from an editorial in the Wall Street Journal.
For the first time in Sunshine State history, more than half of its 3.5 million K-12 students “attended schools outside their zoned neighborhood assignment,” says a spokesman for the state’s biggest nonprofit scholarship administrator. …nearly 1.8 million students, or 51% of K-12 students in the state, attended a school of their family’s choice in 2023-24. That’s one happy result of GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis’s work to expand education savings accounts (ESAs)… Some 285,000 students use ESAs to attend private schools—more than the 125,000 who attend private school without them. …Another 116,000 are homeschooling, and nearly 400,000 students attend charter schools. Hundreds of thousands of students are also taking advantage of choice within the traditional public school system. …Step Up For Students reported last month that Catholic school enrollment increased in Florida for the fourth year in a row—by 2.3% in 2024-25 from the year before—with about 90% of Catholic school students using state ESAs.
Given all this data, it is no surprise that Florida is ranked #1 (again) according to the Heritage Foundation’s Education Freedom Report Card.
Though kudos to Arizona for being ranked #1 in the education choice category.
What’s happening in education makes me very thankful for federalism. States have the freedom to reform and innovate.
If there is continued progress, perhaps America can climb into the top 10 for global education freedom
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