On the March, School Choice Takes Its Fight From Red, Right to Blue – RealClear Investigations

The next big challenge for the controversial movement: Can it win in enemy territory -- that is, blue states -- too? A school choice researcher sees external pressures forcing blue states like Illinois to get with the program. With school choice now in a majority of states, he says, Illinois will come under pressure to adopt it or risk losing residents to four of its neighbors with choice programs. Such peer pressure explains why public charter schools are now in 46 states.