Native Americans living on Indian reservations attend some of the worst schools in the country, and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is working to change that. McCain introduced legislation last Thursday that would bring school choice to Native American students and help them escape failing schools.

Schools on Indian reservations are run by the Bureau of Indian Education. A November 2015 article by Politico’s Maggie Severns shows how terrible those schools are: “Cracks running several feet down the walls, leaky pipes in the floors and asbestos in the basement… The 48,000 students unfortunate enough to attend BIE schools have some of the lowest test scores and graduation rates in the country — even as the education they’re getting is among the nation’s most expensive: At $15,000 per pupil, the system costs 56 percent more than the national average.”