Against the Tide: Florida's Shameful Retreat From School Choice

In every great epic, there’s a scene in which a hero turns away from his destiny. Achilles sulks in his tent while his countrymen hurl themselves
against the walls of Troy. Lancelot retires to a monastery rather than die with his comrades in
the last defense of the roundtable. Hamlet dithers away a golden opportunity to avenge his father. Frodo tries to give someone else the Ring of Power he has sworn to destroy himself.

And now Florida,long a hero to school reformers nationwide, is poised to retreat from school choice. Attempts to revive the Opportunity Scholarship program — struck down by a court decision riddled with factual errors, baseless assertions, specious logic, and contradictory
conclusions — went nowhere.

Moreover, if subjected to the same
kind of specious judicial logic, the
state’s other major school-choice
programs — the McKay voucher
program for students with learning
disabilities and the corporate taxcredit
scholarship program — could
also be imperiled.