The big winners on Election Day weren't politicians. They were students. That's because many of the politicians who won -- Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida and Senator-elect James Talent of Missouri, to name just two -- are vocal supporters of school choice. Coming only a few months after the Supreme Court confirmed the constitutionality of school choice, the election…

Getting Congress to approve $4.3 billion in federal childcare subsidies -- atop the $12 billion in federal and state funds we already spend annually -- wasn't hard. In fact, it was so easy that some members want to add $8 billion more. Few lawmakers question spending this large sum, despite numerous studies that show institutionalized daycare -- even that…

Pity the low-income parents who have children trapped in failing schools.They want their sons and daughters to get a decent education, but they lack the means to make that happen. They watch Congress repeatedly reject school-choice measures such as tuition vouchers. The Supreme Court is expected to rule any day now on whether an Ohio voucher program is constitutional…

The thorny issue of school vouchers is back before the Supreme Court, and you know what that means: Every desperate argument against giving parents a choice over where they send their children to school is back before the public. One of the most persistent is "skimming" -- the notion that school choice harms the children left behind because only the best, most…

How many times in the last several weeks have you heard or read sentences that begin, "If we've learned nothing else since Sept. 11, we've learned …?" We've learned a lot. About Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. About anthrax in the mail. About "smart bombs" and the geography of countries half a world away. About keeping a closer eye on those we let on airplanes,…

No wonder the California Teachers Association was howling. Ray Haynes actually wanted them to practice what they preach. Haynes, a Republican state senator from California, recently introduced legislation in Sacramento that would have required public school teachers to send their children to public schools. Teachers cried out in opposition from the Redwood forests…

School-choice bills keep foundering in Congress. Yet many of the lawmakers denying poor children a chance to escape failing public schools send their own kids to private schools. Earlier this year, we surveyed members of Congress on school choice. Eighty-six percent of House members responded, as did 93 of the 100 senators. Among respondents with school-age…