The United States faces substantial cultural, political, and military challenges, yet remains hampered by a severely underperforming and costly system of K-12 education. Far from an unhappy accident, American school districts behave broadly as their major interest groups desire, and the demand for non-district K-12 options continues to greatly exceed the supply. State lawmakers have taken unprecedented steps to create and expand private education choice programs, but families require further action. Creating a demand-driven K-12 education system requires multiple robust choice programs. Several states passed modest personal-use tax credits for non-public education expenses. Oklahoma lawmakers passed the most robust version of this policy to date in 2023. State lawmakers should pass an optimized personal-use tax-credit program in every state to enhance family control over K-12 education across the country.