When it was passed two years ago, Nevada’s education savings accounts—a voucher-like program—was hailed as the most ambitious private school choice program in the nation because it was open to all of the state’s nearly 460,000 public school students.
But legal challenges and shifting political winds in the state have stalled that program indefinitely. School choice supporters are split on what the turn of events in Nevada means for the momentum of other similarly-styled programs nationwide.
A last-ditch legislative effort to fund Nevada’s education savings accounts—which would give all public school students the option to take state money allocated to them and use it for private school tuition or other approved education-related expenses—crumbled in the face of uncompromising Democratic opposition. The Nevada legislature won’t meet again until 2019, essentially leaving education savings accounts dormant for the thousands of families that have applied to use them.
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