Faculty closures and union hostility to parental involvement in curricula have created new political momentum for schooling alternative within the states. Iowa may very well be the following success story if Republicans within the state Home discover sufficient political braveness.

The Iowa Senate final week handed an schooling invoice that creates a program that makes use of public cash to fund as much as 10,000 scholarships a 12 months for sure academic bills, together with private-school tuition.