Following on from my piece yesterday, here are a few more examples of progressive ideas from the Right.

School Choice. For most of the last 50 years, the only public schools that competed for students were magnet schools. These were largely the creation of the federal courts, and their primary purpose was to draw white students from the suburbs back to center-city school systems. Since they had to compete with other schools, they had to be good. And just about everyone agrees they are good. So why can’t every school be a magnet school? The answer: teachers unions. If schools had to compete for students, bad teachers would lose their jobs. Bad schools would be forced to close. Because the Democratic Party is so dependent on teacher union support, you will be hard-pressed to find a Democratic politician anywhere who supports absolute school choice.