While many legislatures are content to pump more money into the status quo education establishment, forward-looking states are adding in measures of school choice. The latest to do so is Georgia.

The Georgia Special Needs Scholarship allows certain parents to redeem at a private school the lesser of the school's tuition, or the state's allocation to the public school for the past year for that student.

The state department of education has a collection of documents on the program, including its enabling legislation, the eligibility requirements (PDF), and an FAQ, or list of frequently asked questions (all documents are in PDF). One limitation of the measure is that it requires participating students to first serve a year in a public school. On the other hand, it does not require that parents prove inadequate performance on the part of the public school.

Writing for the Pacific Research Institute, Vicki E. Murray offers a quick review of the growth of schools-of-choice program in the last few years, and concludes that California lawmakers ought to follow suit.