I‘ve seen a lot of moral, academic and budgetary arguments for school choice, but here’s a new one: School choice is good for the environment, says Bartley Danielsen, a finance and real estate professor at N.C. State.

Danielsen says school choice allows families to find a great school in downtown areas, so they don’t have to move out to the suburbs for better public schools. Even though families might move for better schools, parents are still likely to commute to work downtown, leading to lots of congestion and infrastructure needs.