SB1126 allocates approximately $3.98 billion in funding to the State Department of Education from the General Appropriations bill for FY 2025-26. The Senate passed SB1126 on May 20, 2025, by a vote of 31 to 15. We have assigned pluses to the nays because education is not the role of government—it is the responsibility of a child’s parents or family. Schools can and should be privatized, without any need for public funding that steals from taxpayers (e.g., property taxes) and drains the treasury. If not dismantled, the government’s monopoly on preK-12 education will continue to displace traditional private schools and homeschooling in favor of universal state-sponsored schooling. The best “school choice,” by far, is for parents to choose not to place their child’s education in the hands of the state. Educational and economic freedom cannot be achieved by forcing other citizens to give up their hard-earned tax dollars for all that now entails a compulsory, failing, and government-run school system.