Members of 111th Congress Practice Private School Choice

As legislatures across the country discuss School Choice, the Heritage Foundation decided to find out if the Members of Congress exercise their right to choose private education either for themselves, or for their children. In their survey, a few of their interesting findings included:

• 44% of Senators and 36% of Representatives have at one time sent their children to a public school
• 20% of the Members themselves had been to a private school
• 11% of Americans currently attend private school

This shows that the current Members of Congress both attended as well as send their children to private schools at a higher rate than the rest of the American public. Perhaps its time to give everyone that same opportunity.