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School choice making inroads in blue states
Published: 11:40 AM 10/27/2011
By Andrew Campanella
Education Reform Policy Analyst


Andrew Campanella is the author of four consecutive editions of the "School Choice Yearbook" and has served as senior adviser to the Alliance for School Choice and the American Federation for Children. In November, he will begin work as the vice president of public affairs for National School Choice We
If you have any doubt that real school choice can reach practically every state in this country, cast those apprehensions aside. School choice is making inroads in big, blue states, and it’s likely coming to a community near you.

Need proof? Take a look at the news that just broke last night in Pennsylvania.

Led by a Democrat and a Republican, a school voucher bill — yes, a voucher bill — passed out of the State Senate with bipartisan support, just one day after the legislation (Senate Bill 1) was approved in the Senate Education Committee.

This all happened in the Keystone State, a state that voted for President Obama in 2008 by more than 10 percentage points. In fact, the last time the state voted for a Republican for president, there was still a superpower called the Soviet Union and the sitcom “Full Houseâ€