Does School Choice Lead to Higher Tuition Costs?

Polls show that most Americans support school choice. A RealClear Opinion Research poll taken in late June, surveyed 1,000 registered voters. Poll results show that 71% support school choice while 13% opposed school choice. 

Nonetheless, critics of school choice claim that it increases the tuition costs at private schools. The Heritage Foundation said, not so.

To the contrary, the study by The Heritage Foundation found that school choice significantly held down the cost of tuition of private elementary schools and had no impact on tuition at private high schools….

Over the past 10 years, states that adopted school choice policies had lower rates of tuition increases than states that never had school choice policies. When adjusted for inflation, the cost of tuition rose more slowly in states that had previously adopted school choice. States without school choice had an average 27.6% increase in tuition, while states with school choice saw a 15.4% increase, the study found.