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that provide parents financial aid to opt their children out of the traditional public school system—have been a topic of significant public discussion and debate in recent months. Despite the increasing news coverage, however, polls show that most Americans are unfamiliar with educational choice programs.2 Opponents of educational choice continually seek to take advantage of this knowledge gap by promoting various myths in an effort to deter legislators and policymakers from enacting educational choice programs.  \nIn this white paper, the Institute for Justice (IJ), the nation’s leading law firm dedicated to protecting educational choice programs in courts all across the country, seeks to dispel and disprove 12 of these myths so that legislators and the public can make well-informed decisions about the merits of giving parents more control over their children’s education.  \nThe reality is that our present system of delivering publicly funded education is in need of real and dramatic reform. Educational choice programs shift power from  \nthe bureaucrats at state departments of education, as well as school districts and unions, and return that power to parents, who know better than government officials what kind of educational environment will best suit their children’s needs.  \nIJ recognizes that choice-driven competition is an essential ingredient to any education reform effort that hopes to spur innovation, personalize education, and offer students the opportunity to graduate from high school, attend college or a technical school, find a good job, and pursue their own American Dream. This white paper, therefore, is a robust defense of educational choice programs. It is designed to arm policymakers and legislators with easy access to the abundant sources of information and data that confirm that educational choice programs are not only constitutional, but that they can accomplish their intended purpose of improving the lives of and learning opportunities for America’s youth.  \nTim Keller  \nManaging Attorney of the Institute for Justice Arizona Office  \nTim Keller serves as the Institute for Justice Arizona Office’s managing attorney. He joined the Institute as a staff attorney in August 2001 and litigates school choice, economic liberty, and other constitutional cases in state and federal court.  \nA Word about Terminology  \nWhat does IJ mean when it uses the phrase “educational choice program?”  \nThis paper uses the phrase “educational choice program”rather than “school choice program” because of the growing popularity of programs that provide families with more than private school tuition aid. Programs in Arizona, Florida, Mississippi, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Tennessee, for example, provide families with financial assistance to offset costs including curricula for home education, tutors, and educational therapies—such as speech and occupational therapy—as well as for private school tuition.  \nThe phrase “educational choice program” thus denotes programs that provide parents with the means to choose a variety of private educational options for their children instead of sending them full-time to traditional or chartered public schools.  \nWithin the traditional public school system there is a slowly increasing tendency to provide greater parental choice through inter-and intra-district transfer options, chartered schools, online schools, and magnet schools. 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