School Choice Madness: How I Picked My Teams

Colleen Hroncich

Try as I might, I’ve never been able to get into March Madness. The closest I came was when I had a March baby in 2006, and there wasn’t much else to watch on the hospital TV. So when a Cato colleague invited everyone to fill in a bracket—with only bragging rights on the line, no money—I had to figure out a way to pick my teams. No one in my family was surprised that I picked based on the school choice policies in each team’s state.

The school choice approach...