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# Video: What You Should Know About School Choice
- URL: https://ivn.us/video-what-you-should-know-about-school-choice/
- Published: 2012-08-14T18:27:11.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-22T19:30:01.000Z
- Author: Wes Messamore
- Tags: News

In a lot of ways, school choice programs, though perceived as a draconian libertarian policy, are similar to the single-payer policy that many progressives want for health care. School choice doesn't mean leaving disadvantaged parents without a way to afford their children's education.

It means letting the government act as a single payer for education costs, but letting parents choose how to use that money to educate their child in a way that works best for them and their child instead of letting just a few government planners make those choices for everyone.

Watch below:

http://youtu.be/GPvotHZNpyE

After watching the short video above, do you want a specific example of cost-cutting and educational improvement as a result of school choice? Look no further than [the federal government's own study](http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/dc-vouchers-better-results-at-a-quarter-the-cost/?ref=ivn.us) of its own school choice program-- the DC voucher program that Washington policymakers ended despite [sitting on the results of this study](http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/whitehurst-duncan-is-not-lying/?ref=ivn.us).

On a cost benefit basis, school choice programs deliver. They create better educational results at a lower cost. Why not implement them more, especially when education budgets are swallowing up the finances of so many states?