During a discussion about the midterm elections on Saturday's Journal Editorial Report on Fox "news," and the fact that a bunch of Republican governors were reelected in red states, host Paul Gigot asked guests Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Allysia Finley why the results of those elections were an indication that "this was a good year for school choice."
Riley cited wins in Iowa, and Texas, Tennessee and Florida, and specifically DeSantis winning in Miami-Dade county as "very encouraging," and that "Republicans don't need to be afraid of crossing the unions and championing school choice," (pretending they haven't already been attacking unions already for decades) and that they "do not need to be afraid of this issue anymore."
After Gigot noted that there "was one to potentially big setback" with Katie Hobbs' win in Arizona, who is opposed to the voucher program just passed by the current Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, Finley discussed the fact that Hobbs will have trouble rolling it back with a Republican legislature.
Gigot asked Strassel about support by some Democrats like Josh Shapiro for charter schools in Pennsylvania. Strassel responded with praise for Shapiro, but called it "tentative reform." As a recent article in The Tribune-Democrat discussed, unlike Republicans and those on the right, Shapiro doesn't want to fund charter schools at the expense of public education:
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