While most of the election punditry to date has been focused at the national level, major gains by Republicans in states that already have k‑12 education tax credits or school vouchers could lead to the expansion of such programs or the passage of new ones. To see where the action might lie, I offer the chart below, showing post‐​election party control of the legislative and executive branches of government in school choice states (the height of each bar represents degree of control, with the height of the executive branch = 100%). The states are sorted by the number of branches of government that changed hands (represented on the chart by the yellow circles, which correspond to the axis on the right).


There might be gridlock at the national level, but at the state level we may see some interesting school choice developments over the next 2+ years.

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