The new law provides $6,000 scholarship accounts for lower-income students, with initial funding for 5000 kids in the first year, 10,000 in year two, and 15,000 in year three. It’s a start, but we’d like to see the families given closer to twice that – to match what the public pays per child in the public schools.

Mark our words: By the end of next year, virtually the entire South will be a school choice zone.