What comes to mind when you think "school choice?" For many people, it's "vouchers in Cleveland and Milwaukee." Writing on the Cato blog, Adam Schaeffer says that it's much more than that.

He mentions "special needs vouchers in Florida, Ohio, Utah, and Georgia and [another] for foster-care children in Arizona."

In addition, "Five states — Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island — have donation tax credit programs. Nearly $150 million in scholarship funds support close to 100,000 low-income children. And that’s not counting the most recent business-donation programs in Arizona and Rhode Island, or Arizona’s personal-donation tax credit program which serves primarily low-income families."

Schaeffer is responding to an article by Sol Stern that calls into question the value of market-based competition as a path to school reform. 

My own take is that school choice measures still haven't reached a critical mass to bring about substantial change in the school establishment. Despite some legislative victories, school choice is still at the margins of school governance.