The New Choice Economy — Policy, Platforms, and the Family Experience | ASU+GSV Summit 2026

Erika Donalds (OptimaEd), Gretchen Schoenhaar (Step Up For Students), John Ward (Arizona Department of Education), and Lydia Hampton (Learning Lab Wichita) join moderator Lauren Bender (Odyssey) at the ASU+GSV Summit 2026 in The New Choice Economy — Policy, Platforms, and the Family Experience to examine how federal school choice policy and platforms are reshaping the parent experience. Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA) is the first federal school choice program — but policy promise only becomes reality for students and families if the platforms and systems are ready. In this session, leaders will unpack how ECCA and state adoption are reshaping the parent experience of school choice, and what it takes to build platforms that can serve every family. This panel puts the full choice ecosystem in one room — platform builder, scholarship administrator, state implementer, policy expert, and community innovator — to ask the harder question: as school choice goes federal, who is accountable for making it actually work? About GSV Summit The ASU+GSV Summit is the premier global convening for the entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, educators, workforce leaders, and policymakers transforming the $8 trillion education and skills sector and convening over 7,000. The ASU+GSV Summit, launched in 2010 and now in its 17th year, is hosted by GSV Summit LLC and is the preeminent platform for connecting ideas, communities, and capital to unlock opportunity at scale. GSV Summit's mission—that ALL people deserve equal access to the future—is grounded in the belief that scaled innovations across PreK to Gray learning are critical to achieving this goal. 🎥 SUBSCRIBE:    / @globalsiliconvalley   Connect with ASU+GSV at: • Website: https://www.asugsvsummit.com • X: https://x.com/asugsvsummit • LinkedIn:   / asu-gsv-ai-show   • Facebook:   / asugsvsummit   • Instagram:   / asugsvsummit