School choice is a movement that has swept across America as parents yearn for the restoration of American schools to the promise they once held. Mandy Drogin and I worked long hours trekking across Texas, and she never lost sight of the mission: an education system that levels the playing field for parents and expands opportunities for Texas children. In Classroom Comeback, Mandy illustrates the blueprint for stronger, freer, and more enlightened educational policies that so many American families need. This is a must-read for parents, educators, and policymakers committed to strengthening our schools for generations to come.

—Greg Abbott, Texas Governor

I’ve said it countless times: school choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century. Every child in America deserves access to a quality education, regardless of race, income, or ZIP code. Mandy Drogin is a tireless warrior for freedom who helped secure Texas’s historic universal school-choice victory. In Classroom Comeback, she takes the movement beyond school choice—showing how parents can challenge the education cartel, counter woke indoctrination, reject low expectations, and reclaim our classrooms. Read this book and join the fight.

—Ted Cruz, U.S. Senator (R-TX)

There is no policy more important to securing America’s future than education freedom. If America’s rising generation is not prepared for success, America is not capable of success. Mandy Drogin helped land the ‘white whale’ of universal school choice in Texas, and Classroom Comeback is a thoughtful blueprint for how to keep the pedal on the gas to ensure every student in America has the opportunity to learn, grow and succeed.

—Betsy DeVos, former U.S. Secretary of Education 

When Texas Public Policy Foundation prepared for the fight to pass the nation's largest day-one universal school choice program, there was only one person I wanted leading the effort: Mandy Drogin. She has never shied away from the toughest battles, and after decades of failure we knew she was one person capable of leading Texas’s fight for education freedom. Mandy brings uncommon courage, relentless determination, and a willingness to challenge the most powerful beneficiaries of the status quo when others won’t. Whether taking on entrenched bureaucracies, exposing harmful ideologies, or building the coalitions necessary to achieve lasting reform, she leads with conviction and never backs down from doing what is right for children. Classroom Comeback is more than a powerful diagnosis of what has gone wrong in American education, it is the playbook for restoring excellence, empowering parents, and reclaiming America's classrooms. If we are serious about preserving freedom and preparing the next generation to lead, this is a book every parent should read. curriculum reform, school accountability, and empowering parents.

—Greg Sindelar, CEO of the Texas Public Policy Foundation

If you want real solutions that work, this should be your last stop. Many books on education are written by parents, educators, policymakers, scholars, or activists—but none captures the breadth of knowledge Mandy Drogin brings from having lived all those roles. Mandy is pragmatic, results-oriented, and passionately dedicated to her children as well as yours. Her unwavering commitment and insights played a pivotal role in establishing the nation’s largest school-choice program, and her expertise extends to curriculum reform, school accountability, and empowering parents.

—Dave Carney, president and CEO, Norway Hill Associates

Mandy Drogin is one of the foremost advocates for K-12 parents in the entire country. Having been on the front lines of this fight for two decades, in this book she exposes the deep underbelly of the K-12 education system and how the Education Cartel, through a myriad of funding channels - the unions, foundations, superintendents, "bond industrial complex" - all fundamentally pervert the basic virtues and practical ways that we should be educating our kids to the highest standards possible. Fixing our children's schools requires the urgency of a rescue mission, and Mandy Drogin gives an excellent primer on how to build a blueprint for one of the most important endeavors for America's future.

—Tommy Schultz, CEO, American Federation for Children