Swedish education policy has undergone substantial changes since the 1990s, not least providing generous opportunities to establish independent schools and to receive public funding for these. Parents and students have also been provided the opportunity to choose schools. Such reforms have made the Swedish school system one of the most market-oriented in the world. Since the early 1990s, the Swedish school system have also been highly decentralized, meaning that the main responsibility to provide education was from now on handed over from the state to the municipalities. In this chapter, we interrogate and problematize how local political actors in three mid-sized cities talk about and understand the free school choice and the relations between public and independent schools. Based on interviews with politicians, from left to right, as well as municipal officials working with education, we highlight that there is not one way of talking about and understanding these issues, but several.