PA Pioneered School Choice. Now We Must Finish What We Started

Originally published by RealClearPennsylvania.

With National School Choice Week upon us, we must reflect on our successes and challenges in expanding educational options across our great commonwealth. We must set a bold path to ensure every family has the opportunity to choose the educational environment that best meets the needs of their kids.

Pennsylvania has been a trailblazer in educational opportunity. Long before school choice became a national movement, the good people of our great commonwealth helped prove that empowering families—not bureaucracies—could change lives.

In 2001, Pennsylvania became one of the first states in the nation to adopt a tax-credit scholarship program: the Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC). Then, in 2012, Pennsylvania added another program: the Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC).

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