Like a C-SPAN junkie throwing a shoe at the TV to thwart a clueless Washington Journal guest, a supporter of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program can at times feel like a solitary soldier in the face of the bureaucratic juggernaut that is Capitol Hill.

There have been hearings, reports, letters, editorials, parent and student testimony, rallies…

And yet, Congress and the Administration continue to fret over the effectiveness of DC’s voucher program, laboring (or not) to find an answer even as it stares them right in the face.

Okay, perhaps not the President, but at least Members of Congress get out into the real world and rub shoulders with the residents of their transitory home.

Do they realize that 74% of the folks passing them in the street each day support a continuation of DC OSP?

A new report out today from the Friedman Foundation cuts past the politicos and gets right to the heart of the matter: how District residents - beneficiaries of this and other reforms - feel about their schools, their school leaders and the choices they have for their children.

Their desire to to see the program survive this prolonged vetting is reinforced by groups such as Save Opportunity and DC Children First that work one-on-one with DC families on a daily basis in an effort to enlighten elected officials to the reality of the program’s success.

This is a wake-up call that needs to be delivered to every elected representative with a vote to cast.