February 14, 2007 1:12PM 

# Utah Vouchers: What Should We Expect? 

By [Andrew J. Coulson](https://www.cato.org/people/andrew-coulson) 

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I’ve got an [op-ed in the American Spectator](http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=11014) today about Utah’s newly passed, and nationally unprecedented, statewide voucher program.

The upshot is this: it is the most significant school choice legislation ever passed in the United States, but it isn’t going to create a vigorously free market in education overnight, and it will have to be stalwartly defended if it is to preserve the independence of participating private schools.

So let’s all sing along with [George Harrison](http://www.lyricsdomain.com/7/george_harrison/i_got_my_mind_set_on_you.html):

> It’s gonna take patience and time, ummm 
> To do it, to do it, to do it, to do it, to do it 
> To do it right

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