It’s been a long day and I’m about to go to sleep, but I just couldn’t turn in without sharing with you all that according to early ballot returns, Utahns today, as expected, likely rejected their state Republican Party’s proposal to create what would have been the largest private school voucher program in the nation. It was a pretty lousy proposal that didn’t provide enough money for low-income families to get their children into typical private schools. And it utterly ignored the fact that there weren’t enough open private school seats in the state to make the program workable.

So hat tip to Utah for holding out for wiser education reforms that won’t take away from the public school coffers without giving something real back to needy families and children.

—Dana Goldstein

Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.