From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Emily Vanderbush, and I'm Michelle Cordero, and this is MassAv.

And this is MassAp. School choice for military families is an idea whose time has come, according to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

DeVos recently voiced her support for education savings accounts for military families at this year's conservative political action conference.

An education savings account would afford them much different dynamic and approach to be able to get their education in the way that best works for them.

And if they don't use it all up in one year,

it can roll forward in that savings account

to be used for future years.

Wow. I think our military families deserve that.

What do you think?

A legislative proposal has also been introduced

in the form of the Education Savings Accounts

for Military Families Act

by Representative Jim Banks of Indiana. Clearly, the idea is gaining momentum, and for good reason.

In 2017, Military Times did a survey of its readers. In the survey, an astounding 35% of the respondents

said that their dissatisfaction with their child's

education was a significant factor in their decision to remain in or leave military service.

40% said that they have either declined or would decline a career advancing job at a different

installation to remain at their current military facility because of high-performing schools.

To learn more about this issue, we sat down with the Heritage Scholar who proposed

ESAs for military families last year, Lindsay Burke, who's the director of the Center for

Education Policy and Will Skilman Fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

Hi, Lindsay. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me.

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