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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaeej0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points s Parental frustration over schoo closures, distance hammn, and olitics in the classroom created an ooening for the educauonai choice movement. bu those tacdors alone are insufficient for legislative success. & States that succeeded in pass;ng obust educatona choice policaes this year all had a key ingredient: an effecive coalition. * Effective coalitions have a unity of Ourose, communicate regularly, and are well pre- pared to carny nut their missions. The Wall S tret Journal declared zo1 the year of school choice after 13 states enacted new choice p licies or expanded existing ones) But so far in 2rxn, 18 states have enacted nine new educational choice policies and expanded 21 existing ones---the most progress the choice movement has ever had in a given year. And it's nm jus the quantity that's impressive; it's also the quality. State poliecymakers have gone bigger and bolder than ever betore, with more expansive eligibility and more innovative poicies, such as K--ice education savings accounts (ESAs) that empower families to customize their children's education. There is no doubt that zoa is the ear of educational choice. ' What was the secret ingredient of the choice movenent's success? Corey DeAngeli highlights the unexpected boost school choice received from teachers unions and the dstrict school establish- ment Virtual schooling gave parents a peek inside the classroom, and many parents were dismayed to discover the lack of real learning or how politicized classrooms had become. All these factors likely contributed to the highest-recorded levels of sup- port for educational choice ever-81 percent among the general public and 86 percent among parents of school -age chirdren But while these factors all created an opening, trie were not sufficient for political success. Sorie states achieved substantial gains, whereas others stalled. Kentucky, Missouri, and Vest Virginia each have Republican supermajorities that p-ssed their first educational choice policies this year. But Idaho, North Dakota, and Wyoming also have GOP supermajorities, yet they failed to pass any choice polin ies. Meanwhile, M arylMand' s Democratic- controlled legislature fully funded the sate's voucher program for the first time in the state's history, and Pennsylvania's Democratic governor signed into law the state's largest-ever expansion of its tax-credit scholarship policy. The key ingredient present in the successful states is a coalition. The aforementioned factors

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