More than 1,900 students in our nation’s capitol have benefited from the Opportunity Scholarship Program that provided private school scholarships and a way to flee the chronically dysfunctional District of Columbia Public Schools system. The U.S. Department of Education under President Obama has acknowledged the program’s success, with the authors of the department’s most recent study concluding that students in the program “were performing at statistically higher levels in reading, equivalent to 3.1 months of additional learning.”

Despite this record of success for the program, which was approved by Congress in 2004, Obama and the Democratic Congress have eliminated its funding, leaving these students and their parents with no alternative but to return to the failing DCPS.