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1 week ago | reason.org | Jude Schwalbach

Good morning,More than 1.6 million students are using open enrollment, meaning approximately 6% of public school students in the 19 states examined use it to choose a public school, according to a new Reason Foundation report, “Open Enrollment by the Numbers: 2025.” The study reviews K-12 open enrollment, which lets students attend public schools other than their residentially assigned ones when there are open seats. Table 1 shows open enrollment participation in each of these states.

2 weeks ago | reason.org | Aaron Smith |Jude Schwalbach |Christian Barnard

With public school enrollment falling and the rise of school choice policies such as education savings accounts and public school open enrollment, portability is becoming an increasingly important feature of K-12 finance systems. Portable education funds are dollars sensitive to student enrollment, meaning school districts gain or lose funding with changes in student counts. Public schools generally lose funding when enrollment falls, but K-12 funding systems vary substantially across states.

2 weeks ago | reason.org | Jude Schwalbach

School choice continues to make significant progress across the country. Texas recently made headlines with Gov. Greg Abbott signing Senate Bill 2 into law, establishing education savings accounts that could be used by up to 90,000 students during the program’s first year to help pay for homeschooling, virtual learning programs, private school tuition and more.

3 weeks ago | reason.org | Max Gulker

Closing arguments in the remedies phase of the antitrust case against Google’s search engine ended on May 30, with a decision expected from U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in August. The remedies sought by the Department of Justice (DOJ) include a forced sale of the Chrome internet browser, bans on default contracts with other browsers, and mandated sharing of data with competitors.

3 weeks ago | reason.org | Robert M. Poole

Surrounded by airline CEOs and other aviation executives, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy recently announced his plan to bring about a new air traffic control system over the next three to four years. Secretary Duffy is asking Congress to provide billions of taxpayer dollars, though he didn’t specify the total amount, to pay for it. America’s air traffic control system needs repairing. Most of the technology listed in Mr. Duffy’s plan should be replaced.