If you’re an Alberta parent wondering what to do now that the kids’ school days are hostage to a teachers’ strike, know that there’s another way. In the United States, demand for education choice has grown for years. It gained a real boost when many families were horrified by how public schools handled COVID-19 closures and were turned off by politicized or just bad curricula they saw presented through remote lessons. New research shows that choice policies in the form of vouchers are increasing demand for private schooling and likely to speed the exodus of students from government schools in the future.