Legislative measures creating programs like the one in Florida also serve as a more effective means than the ballot for pioneering new school choice programs. Not until the thousands of American students now using vouchers stop thriving. In fact, it's never even been close. More than a half-dozen times since the 1970s, and no less than five times this decade, voters have soundly rejected voucher experiments. Yesterday, once again, the voters made that abundantly clear.
Vouchers are an unproven scheme whose time has never come.
This is decades of bureaucracy that's been built up. It was unlikely we would be able to vaporize it in one fell swoop. We will continue to stand up for these children until justice is done. This was the first time an extensive effort was made to lay the groundwork before an initiative was put on the ballot. Any loss is painful because the stakes are so high, but each effort creates the foundation for a stronger effort the next time.