Highlights

Lawmakers supported by Commonwealth Children’s Choice Fund champion education reform!

In 2020, opponents of school choice spent nearly $5 million trying to defeat Sen. Scott Martin and Rep. Andrew Lewis, both of whom are dedicated school choice champions.

Commonwealth Children’s Choice Fund invested more than $500,000 into Martin’s and Lewis’s campaigns. Despite being heavily outspent, both won re-election.

In 2021, Sen. Martin and Rep. Lewis spearheaded the most transformative educational opportunity efforts ever proposed in the Legislature.

Taken together, their bills would:

• Create education opportunity accounts to ensure Pennsylvania students can access the educational services they need
• Lift arbitrary caps on tax credit scholarship programs, allowing the programs to expand immediately and automatically each year as demand increases
• Fully acknowledge public charter schools as equal public education options
• Empower parents—regardless of their zip code—to choose the educational opportunities that will best prepare their children for success

See Sen. Martin’s bill here and Rep. Lewis’s bill here.