School choice won big in states this year. Is the movement about to hit a wall?

(The Hill) - The school choice movement is riding high this year with multiple GOP-led states handing it legislative victories, but opponents are shrugging off the advances and predicting a tougher road ahead.

At least eight states have put new school choice policies on the books in the first five months of 2023, with some of them expanding to all K-12 students. Other measures are still up in the air. 

The victories have been heavily celebrated by Republicans, but they may be running out of friendly territory. 

So far this year, Arkansas, Iowa, Utah and Florida have enacted education savings accounts (ESAs) for all K-12 students, giving families a set amount of money they can use to put their children in other educational settings if they don’t want them to go to public school. 

"I am not interested in being a caretaker of the failed status quo. I vowed to be a change-maker for our people," Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) said. "Today, I am delivering on that promise, and will sign into law my transformational education plan, unleashing a new era of freedom, opportunity and prosperity for all."