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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaeer0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points s uhrough their respornse to ,he panernic, unions overp-ayed their hand and exposed the inherent failures of the one--sizefits- i. government schoo: system. 2021 s the year of schtol choice. Eighteen sates have enacted oF expanded programs to fund students instead of sytens over the past year----ano support `or school choice is at an all-time high. Par nts are waking up, and there's no turning back: They don't want to teel pewerless ever again. The teachers union empire is crumbling righ. beFore everyone's eyes, and it's th unins ' own fault. 2021 has been the year of scho-A choice, and it's not over yet) Most remarkably, the success of school choice this year has been attributable less to its advocates than to its worst enemies: teachers unions. Through their response to the pandemic, unions overplayed their hand and exposed the inherent failures of the one-size-fits-all govern- ment school system.' I inlies are now thankfuity' figuring out that there isn't any good reason to fund institutions when we can fund students directly instead, Support for school choie is through the roof. The latest ntion'ide sur'ey by eal(l ar Opinion Research founr suport for scho-A choice jumped by 10 percentage pints oer the past year from 64 percent support in April wa2n to 74IpCrcent sup- porta in June 2o i Polling Rom Morning Consu1 simniary found surges in support ir all types of school choice from spring to fall o2zo2 Another nationwide poll of America's g-- to 29-year-rids, conducted by H-arvard U niversity, found a io percentage point increase in supiport for expanding educational freedom over the past two years-fron 63 percent support among respond- ents in 2019 to 73 percent support in 221) Eighteen states enacted i expandod programs to flnd students instead of syste ms this year . The nuber o states with education savings account programs-----the purest forn of t'nding students directy, and Iempowering families-doubled fiomr five to 10 tlis year7 'Th' prrwer inbalance netween the pubic schooi monopohy and families was made clearer than ever. Parents were willing to put up with their hik ren's schools receiving taxpayer money while failing to adeorUatey Eneet their needs year after year But it became another thing entirely when those schools took that mTorney but refused to provide in-person scnvc.

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