So far, school choice policy decisions have been made only at the local and state levels.
As of the year 2000, only five public voucher programs were operating in the United States-in Milwaukee, Cleveland, and the states of Florida, Minnesota, and Arizona.
Each program served only a small percentage of children.
Some 25 state legislatures were thinking of using public money to pay for private and parochial school tuition, however.
On the federal level, a bill calling for federal subsidy of tuition vouchers for low-income families failed to pass the House of Representatives in 1997.