Texas set aside a billion dollars for education savings accounts this year. Georgia raised its education budget while launching new choice programs of its own. Twenty-three states have now joined the first federal tax-credit scholarship program in American history, created under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. By every visible measure, school choice is winning, and winning decisively, in the court of public opinion and the halls of state legislatures alike. But there is a second, quieter battlefield where the outcome looks considerably less certain, and where the teachers unions who have lost the political argument are now trying to win through procedure what they could not win through persuasion: state courtrooms, one appropriations clause at a time.

In Chatham, New Jersey, a school district decided a guidance counselor, not a parent, gets to determine whether a child's gender transition is any of that parent's business. Two mothers found out their elementary school daughters were living a second identity at school that their own parents were never told about. Now they are suing, and the case is a preview of a fight that is about to spread statewide.

For decades, federal bureaucrats have told faith-based charities the same thing: your money is welcome, your services are welcome, but keep your faith out of it or keep your hand out of the till. Last week, the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel finally said what conservatives have argued for a generation. That policy was never legal in the first place.

There is something almost quaint about watching a young journalist become a minor sensation for stating facts that a community college economics professor would have taught for free in 1975. Emma Camp, a University of Virginia graduate now writing for the Wall Street Journal's Free Expression section after cutting her teeth at Reason, has built a following this year by doing exactly that.