This is the dawning of the age of school choice.

The school bells will start ringing in the days and weeks ahead, but a record number of kids — especially children from low-income families — will be opting out of the traditional public schools. This year as many as 1 million kids will participate in public school alternatives, including voucher programs, tuition tax credits, scholarship programs or charter schools.

That’s a good thing, right? After all, to paraphrase the famous axiom: When schools compete, kids win.

But that’s not the way the teachers unions and the education aristocracy see it. The New York Times notes that education freedom is causing a “crisis in the public schools.”

Why? Because so many families are opting for better school alternatives. Isn’t this mass exodus from

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