A few months ago I posted on the dropping of the DC Opportunity Scholarship program from the Federal Budget. Recently, I saw this film produced by the Heritage Foundation, which was a last attempt to build a movement to reverse the program's demise in Congress. I am sad to say that this month as school begins, no new students in DC will be added to the scholarship program's roles and instead these thousands of students will knowingly be entering schools that are failing them, schools they are more likely to drop out from than graduate from. They are stuck with a reversal of a program that was working. In DC, they aren't going back to great schools this fall. They're just plain going backwards.

Note that although the film was produced by a conservative think tank, many of the proponents of the program featured in the film are not Republican. The film is called "Let Me Rise" and is featured on the Voices of School Choice website.