Kevin Kiley: “At this moment, we have an opportunity to catalyze a school choice revolution across America, and one has never been…”

“At this moment, we have an opportunity to catalyze a school choice revolution across America, and one has never been more desperately needed. The Nation's report card recently came out, and the verdict was clear: Our public education system is failing. The National Assessment of Educational Progress showed one-third of students are unable to read at the basic level for their age group, and math scores are down 9 percent since 2018. Now, the Biden administration's response was to continue to shovel more money into a failing system. They threw 200 billion in tax dollars into the same failed system with absolutely nothing to show for it. In fact, things got worse. You can put this on a graph: The level of funding has gone up; student achievement has gone down. It has been a negative return on investment. However, right now we can change that with reforms that will actually work in expanding opportunity, giving choices to millions of families, and providing a healthy sense of drive toward improvement in our public education system generally. That is through two pieces of legislation that I am sponsoring and that can also be included as part of the budget reconciliation process. The first is the Educational Choice for Children Act, which will provide a tax credit for charitable contributions that enable scholarships to attend private, parochial, and independent schools. This could potentially expand private school choice to millions of families in this country.…”