School choice success stories are everywhere.

Earlier this month, National Public Radio aired an episode of WHYY's Fresh Air, in which New York Times  Andes Bureau Chief Nicholas Casey talked about the collapse of oil prices in Venezuela, how Donald Trump resembles Hugo Chavez, and the time he spent embedded with Colombian FARC guerrillas.

The interview with host Terry Gross eventually turned to Casey's childhood, growing up in a mobile home in a working-class enclave of Northern California.

He said that, when he first enrolled in elementary school, his mother drove him to the best public school she could find. She later transferred him to a segregated school, where nearly all the children were black and Hispanic.

Later, he received a scholarship that may have changed the course of his life. (more…)