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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaeck0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points A Although private school choice has historicaliy been a Republican priority, education reform organizations often use stratecgies intended to appeal to Demcratic lawmaikers and interest groups. * Among 70 votes held on final passage for private school choice legislation, Democrats pro-- vided only 381 Oyes votes com pared to 2,844 Republican yes votes. * There were only three votes out of 70 in which Republicans needed any Democratic votes to reach a 50 percent threshold in a state house or senate. * Vouchers, tax-credit colrships and education schola Ship accounts shou i be designed to increase the constituency for school choice and reflect the vn ues of legislators who have peen resporsible for the existence of such programs. Commentators and advocates have called 22 the Year of Educational Choice.' Five state legislatures established new education savings accounts. Arkansas and Ohio enacted new tax-credit scholarships. Mean.- while, lawmakers in another dozen states passed bills to expand 21 existing private choice programs, Most states swept up in the school choice wave have Republican-dominated legislatures. Of the iS states that passed or expanded new programs, only two had. houses and senates led by the Democratic Party This shouldn't be surprising, given that private school choice has historically been a Republican priority What is sur- prising, however, is that education reform organizations have traditionally supported school Choice in tiatives through political and public affairs strategies explicitly intended to appeal to Democrats. Prominent choice supporters confidently assert that we have no chance of winning if we cannot form and sustain a broad-based movement that represents a large set of constituencies.3 Others contend the choice movement has a lot more credibility and potential if it's seen as bipartisani Some even go so far as to say that education reform should be inseparable from progressive politics.5 Five years ago, dozens of progressive education reformers signed an open letter apologizing for failing to elevate voices of marginal- iezed communities-a clear political signat to comfort race-conscious advocatest Bipartisan strategies are init ivcly appealing; cast a wide net and have to catch many fish. Adhterents to this strategy te Republican votes tor granted, What the movement really needs, they reason, is for more Demo- crats to join the effort. How are choice poticies designed under the bipar- tisan approach? In a clear concession to the left flank of the reform coalition, model legislation promoted by leading advocacy groups` includes mandates and means-tested student eligibiHL y9 There has long been a debate about whether school choice programs should be universal or means tested. K

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