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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaepv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SAmerica's school choke mrrnt Ias nlb ar1ied Mre states are adopting privat school choice prograrns that provide universal access to education savings accounts. But the tradihona pub ic system serves die vast rn joiy Of students and vill for the ore- seeable future; those stuoents de'e more Thoce as we: Pubic schoo: choie, w lwhich a;|s students to tnrane r to schools outside heir zoned district, has shown gare, promise in increasn access to edu cational opportunities and sru rin im provernents across school districts. & Few states, however, hue imolermented eflective public school choice prograrns. Policy- rna<ers wouid be wise to learn lessons from the nation's most successfl oublic schoo choice program-----in Wisconsin, Ameria's school choice moment has fnally arrived Nearly 70 years after Miton redma. first pro- posed K-i cducation vouchers, students in Ai- zena, lowa, Utah, \est Virginia, and other states can customize their education using education savings accounts (iSAs), ESAs all{w parents to spend public education funding on cxpcnses such as private sc ho' tuition, tuoring, and home- schooling curricu'a But the vast majority of stu- dents rationwide («4 percent) still attend tr di- tional public schools-and vil for the oreserable tuture Conservatives woud be wse to suppor policies that give families choce witi the public education system) Cross-district open. enrollment does pren eny that, and it has strong bipartisan suppo. In fact, 68 percent of Democrats and 7e percent o p Repub-- licans favor allowing families to attend schools across district tines.' Why Conservatives Should Worry About Residential Assignment Public education is long overdue for an overhaul. Among its most antiquated practices is residential assignment, in which students' public schools are determined based on her e the, live. School dis- trict attendance zones often reflect the legacy of the discriminaiory and now--illegal boundaries imposed by husing redi.nng e federai HoMe Owners' Loan C-'rporation and the Federal Hous- ing Administrati.n reinforced rct ial segregation, codlifying reexistng boundaries sr by developers and homonmers associations decades ago For many, residential asinment is an inmur- mounable b'arrier to better educational opportu - nities. These government-imposecd geographic lines fractore coinnvonities by inextricably linling housing and schooling. Famnhils arc pressured to

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