The new D.C. Choice Incentive Program launches a five-year,federally funded program to provide close to 2,000 low-incomestudents in the District of Columbia with grants of up to $7,500each to attend the school of their choice, be it private,parochial, or other. These opportunity scholarships provide aworkable, hopeful alternative to open private schools to low-incomeand minority students trapped in failing public schools.