The study from the Heritage Foundation shows about 150,000 school kids are receiving publicly-funded scholarships to go to schools their families have chosen. Evan Feinberg of the Foundation says school-choice is on the up-swing.

"The bottom line is that more kids than ever are able to be in schools or in educational opportunities of their parents' choosing rather their government-assigned public school." 

One million to two million "choicers" are being home schooled.  Mike Smith, President of the Home School Legal Defense Association, says a recent poll showed more than half of Americans now approve of home schooling.

"In terms of public opinion home-schooling is gaining the day. Also in terms of legality, home schooling is now legal in every state in some form."

Charter schools provide school choice to a million more.  But millions are locked into low-performing public schools.  John Schilling, of Alliance for School Choice defines the worst.

"There are over 23-hundred schools that are on the federal government restructuring list, and that means that these are schools that have failed five years in a row." 

Candi Cushman, education analyst at Focus on the Family Action, urges parents to get behind school choice.

"They need to wake up to the fact they need to support choices that are going to empower them, and also protect their religious freedoms in the future for their children."   

The "future" should include graduation, but fewer than 75% percent of public school students receive a diploma.