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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Thousands of families race to register for Texas's new school choice program, which looks

like it might soon hit this year's cap of about 90,000 students. A good problem, but one

that universal choice is also facing in other states such as Tennessee.

Meantime after the Mississippi House passes a bill to join the school choice revolution,

the state senate derails it.

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We're joined today by my colleagues on the journal's opinion pages, Kim Strassel and Nicole Alt. Applications on Wednesday opened for Texas' new K-12 Education Savings Account Program, and about 42,000 families

already signed up on that first day. By Friday, it was 60,000. And so it looks like the state might soon hit the cap

based on the amount of funding that is available of about 90,000 students. Kim, first things first,

it seems like great credit here needs to go to Republican Governor Greg Abbott. Remember,

we've talked about on previous podcasts, this school choice ESA plan

was that first voted down by Republicans in the state legislature, at least a handful of

Republicans.

Greg Abbott then picked some Republican primary fights and won many of those fights, and the

result now is a law that he signed, this education savings account program

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