Corey DeAngelis
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New Hampshire, which passed a state-level program, also proposed a bill a year or two ago in their legislature to also allow the local districts to have the money to follow the child if they opted in as well. That bill got tabled. That was one that was really exciting. I think that's the next step in the revolution.
But at the same time, if the private schools are doing it for less and if the micro schools are doing a good job for less, do we want all of the dollars following the student? I think it should be equal across sectors. If we're going to spend the money, I think the state and local should follow the student, not just the state. But the reality is it's mostly – basically everywhere at this point.
Yeah, changing the way people talk about school choice in terms of the money following the child. There's been a lot of legislators on the House floor, Senate floor, talking about funding students, not systems. So they've developed my arguments. And I think a lot of them follow me on social media. And politicians, again, they want to get reelected. They want to look good.
And so when they're following different influencers on social media, they want to look good in the public eye when they're debating the issue against the Democrats. Right. on the House and Senate floor. And so I think they've adopted some of the language and arguments and studies that I've conducted and also cited myself.
It is, for sure. Yeah, I have Facebook and Instagram, but they're not nearly. I have over 200,000 followers on X. It's not like crazy, but it's ballooned in a short amount of time. Who follows you? Do you follow me? Yes, I certainly do. Yeah. Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, Vivek Ramaswamy. There's a lot of influential people who follow me. Libs of TikTok, a lot of big accounts.
Donald Trump doesn't follow me. Maybe after he sees this episode, he'll jump on the bandwagon. Yeah, state governors, state treasurers. Yeah, so Doug Ducey, who's here in Arizona, he was the first state to go all in on school choice. And I have a good relationship with him. He's no longer the governor. He's now Katie Hobbs in Arizona, who's a hypocrite on school choice.
She went to Catholic school and now she opposes school choice for other families. But Doug Ducey was a leader and you needed one state to do it first to show the rest of the states they could. He often uses the analogy of when the first person broke the four minute mile. Before the first person did it, I don't remember his name,
People thought it was impossible for a human being to run below a four-minute mile. But once the first person did it, you had just this cascade effect of tons of people. Now, with school choice, no one thought that any state could do it where it's every family. Because for a long time, there was an incremental approach on the school choice front. It was decades.
We were hitting our head against the wall. It was small incremental wins where maybe the lowest income families here, maybe just in this city, they're going to do it. Maybe just for special needs kids. But now the barometer of success is do you have a universal program, meaning for everybody regardless of income, which these are the types of programs I support.
One, because it allows for more competition, allows for a bigger supply side response, more of a market response. But also we're paying for public schools for high and low income families. They should be able to benefit from school choice as well. We don't discriminate based on income for the public schools. We shouldn't discriminate based on income for school choice either.
And politics, again, is all about organized interest, pushing for what they want. If you have a small program that not a lot of people are benefiting from, well, the problem there is if Democrats get in charge, they're going to be more likely to be able to take it away because low-income families are not as politically active.
You already have that inequality baked into the government school system. You have Baltimore. They have 40% of their high schools have 0% math proficiency rate. You see the same thing in places like Chicago. And so they shouldn't make perfect the enemy of the good. And this fear-mongering hasn't happened with school choice. The public schools, if anything, have gotten better.
I cited Florida, but we also have nationwide data on this. 26 of the 29 studies on this nationwide find statistically significant positive effects of private school choice competition on the outcomes in the public schools, even Even enemies of school choice who are in academia who have any form of honesty at all, they admit that that the studies on the competitive effects are positive.
So the main argument that the unions put forward is the worst argument in terms of it being supported by the evidence. But a lot of people respond to fear mongering. And so they do that.
And it was done by Cornell researchers, published in 2018. And they actually found that when school choice was introduced, peer-reviewed study, when school choice was introduced, the number of searches online for different private education providers spiked. Doesn't seem like a surprising finding to me, probably not. If you have choice now, you can exercise it. You're going to look.
The point is school choice increases parental involvement by definition. Yes, there'll be the parents who are involved anyway, but on the margins, the parents who who just felt like they were depressed being in the school system where they didn't have any other options. Now all of a sudden you give them $10,000 to seek out a better option.
They're not going to be depressed by looking at the private school. So they're going to look and they're going to exercise that choice.
Yeah, they're rigorous studies. You can't randomly assign competition, but it's as good as you can get. I've cited all the studies on that topic.
On the issue of whether low-income families are benefiting from this, I already talked about the theoretical about how they're in the worst schools already. So they had the most to benefit, most to gain from having more options in their kids' education.
In D.C., they have a voucher program, which I think Obama was against even though he sent his own kids to Sidwell Friends, a private school, school choice for kids. for me, but not for the hypocrisy again. Strikes again, it's everywhere.
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