Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels headed to Washington, DC this week to discuss reforms made in his state to overhaul its education system.  On Wednesday at a luncheon held at the American Enterprise Institute (watch video here), Daniels reiterated the importance of giving students the ability to choose the school that best fits their needs.  He applauded the fact that he had seen billboards and direct mail pieces being sent from a school district to students living in another district, advertising their school.  He said despite this strong measure of choice in the Hoosier state, the previous Governor's administration had tried to "choke choice" in the state. 

"If the public school delivers and succeeds, no one will seek to exercise this choice," Daniels said. "But neither will we incarcerate any family's kid in a school that they don't believe is working."  Daniels who signed two monumental education bills into law on Thursday, including the School Scholarship Act, the largest voucher bill in U.S. history.