The opponents of Donald Trump’s pick to be secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, are animated in large part by anger at her support for school voucher programs. And in their efforts to undermine vouchers, they’ve gone far afield—to Chile, to be exact, where an expansive school choice system was begun in 1980. To discredit DeVos, her opponents have set out to discredit Chile’s voucher program, a parent-driven, choice-based, quality-improving education reform that has been a decades-long success.

The week of DeVos’s confirmation hearing, the Washington Post published an article by associate political science professors Jennifer Pribble and Jennifer L. Erkulwater labeling the Chilean voucher system a “cautionary tale.”