The Wall Street Journal once famously declared 2011 “The Year of School Choice.” As 2015 comes to a close, the Journal may want to update its assessment. The number and quality of school choice programs enacted in 2015 makes it the new Year of School Choice.

In 2011, 13 states enacted new school choice programs or expanded existing ones. In 2015, 15 states created or expanded school choice programs, as tallied by the libertarian Cato Institute’s Jason Bedrick.