One of the most disappointing aspects of the 2015 legislative session was lawmakers’ failure to pass school choice. Though supporters were armed with new studies and clear support from Texas parents and GOP leadership, legislators didn’t deliver. So the fight continues.

Most recently, U.S. News & World Report weighed in on the issue, claiming to show how “school choice policies could disadvantage low-income students.”

The evidence showed nothing of the sort. Again and again, arguments against school choice are shown to be flawed, while example after example shows that school choice helps students.

U.S. News made the usual claims. “Research shows that voucher-like school choice policies often face a number of constraints,” the magazine wrote.

“School choice policies are predicated on the assumption that parents have enough information to make an informed decision on where to send their children,” the magazine said. “However, the vast majority of school districts do not provide families with robust school quality information – in part because school quality is difficult to measure and portray clearly to parents and students. Even districts with large choice programs, like Denver and New Orleans, often struggle to provide families with the information they need to make optimal decisions.”

In other words, parents need good information in order to make good decisions. Since schools – mostly run by powerful teacher unions opposed to school choice – aren’t giving them good information, we should take away their choices.

No, if there’s an information problem, let’s start by providing better information to parents.

“Furthermore, school choice policies also assume that students have the means to get to their desired school,” U.S. News continued. “If families do not have the flexibility to drive children across the city, or schools do not provide busing, research shows that school choice options alone will not help families access better schools. Research also suggests that many parents prefer to send their children to schools in their neighborhood and that they would rather have higher-quality neighborhood schools than the option to send their students to high-quality schools elsewhere.”

Again, in other words, some parents may have trouble getting their children to the school of their choice – so we should take away their choices?

That’s not a school choice problem – that’s a logistics problem. Cities with bus services can be enlisted as allies, as can families. The bottom line should be giving parents choices, and working with them to overcome obstacles.

The U.S. News article falls back on the possibility that some poor students might not benefit as a reason to ensure that no poor students benefit.

This goes against all the available evidence.

Allowing parents to choose their children’s schools would have positive impacts on education, the economy and even property tax values, according to a study released in January by economist Arthur Laffer.

“There’s a huge volume of evidence that shows school choice makes public schools do better, private schools do better, kids do better,” he told attendees at a Texas Public Policy Foundation conference.

Disappointingly, Texas lawmakers didn’t act on that study this session.