A just-released Friedman Foundation report confirms another pro-school choice argument: Reduced costs. According to “Education by the Numbers,” choice programs throughout the country generated nearly $444 million in net savings to state and local budgets from 1990 to 2006. Heretofore school choice advocates have done well to demonstrate that competition leads to positive learning outcomes, as well as more satisfied parents and students. (For me, in the land of the free, we should not have to “demonstrate” or “prove” anything in this area; parents should simply have the right to choose their children’s educational style or institution. Period.) This report pounds another nail into the government education monopoly coffin. Robert Enlow, executive director and COO of the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation, summed it up well in the Foundation’s May 9 media release: "In the face of $444 million in savings, another excuse to deny children a quality education has vanished before our eyes."