11.   Only about a half-dozen states have deployed large-scale customer choice programs for their residents, and several others have pilot programs.

12.   Several states, including Massachusetts, have experimented with small choice programs, limited to public schools.

13.   Skeptics say that the push for more choice programs may create a system in which the new schools skim off the best students and the most active parents.

14.   Teachers have objected that school choice programs will drain resources from public schools.

15.   The Cleveland choice program allowed parents to use the vouchers in suburban schools, but only if suburban schools agreed, and none did.

16.   The legal action by the American Jewish Congress is only the latest of at least four lawsuits against charitable choice programs in the United States.

17.   The numbers are highest in cities where choice programs already are in place.

18.   There are already heartening signs that the choice program is doing exactly that.

19.   They also dispute the value of the choice program.

20.   Thompson has pioneered a more comprehensive choice program in his state.