Morning Bell: Duncan Chose Choice … Will He Allow You?
After eight years under President Bush, federal spending on K-12 public education is at an all time high. The federal government currently spends $71 billion… Read More
After eight years under President Bush, federal spending on K-12 public education is at an all time high. The federal government currently spends $71 billion… Read More
Everyone has been so excited about the Obama children’s first week in school in the District. As a parent I am happy that the President-elect… Read More
As the single mother of a child who received a scholarship for disadvantaged children to attend a private school, I’ve seen how school choice can… Read More
President-elect Barack Obama is set to nominate Chicago Public School CEO Arne Duncan to be the next Secretary of Education. Mr. Duncan is known as… Read More
Twelve years ago a Republican Congress and a Democrat president came together in a bipartisan fashion and passed one of the nation’s strongest charter school… Read More
After D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee met with both John McCain and President-elect Barack Obama during the campaign, both candidates tried to claim her as… Read More
Over the weekend, the Washington Post editorial page continued its support of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program—comparing President-elect Obama’s position on school vouchers with his… Read More
Blogging at The New York Times, Pacific Research Institute senior fellow Lance Izumi writes on the future of conservative education policy: Republicans have always favored,… Read More
Following Wall Street and Detroit, the nation’s governors have joined the growing line on Capitol Hill—begging Congress to save their states from looming fiscal shortfalls…. Read More
On Google’s Knol site, Heritage senior policy analyst Dan Lips and Joydeep Roy, Lawrence Mishel and Sean Corcoran from the Econimc Policy Institute and New… Read More
The Los Angeles Times has a great story out today about how a team of public school teachers hand selected three students from low-income immigrant… Read More
Why does the left keep insisting that the only people qualified to talk to teenagers about sex is the government? Attacking Sarah Palin in today’s… Read More
Teachers unions, and the liberals that love them, got a pair of great headlines out of the USA Today this morning. “Teachers union initiates school… Read More
Kids are back in school across America and education is the topic du jour on the presidential campaign trail. But cut through the rhetoric and… Read More
Heritage Foundation senior policy analyst Dan Lips has a new article up at NRO on the future of conservatives and No Child Left Behind: Even… Read More
Speaking in Dayton, Ohio, yesterday, Barack Obama hit the right rhetorical notes on the current state of education in the United States: If we want… Read More
ST. PAUL — After two conventions, three cities, 11 days and more than 16 panel discussions, a pretty clear picture emerges on the different directions… Read More
MINNEAPOLIS — As one might expect, the contrast between an education panel hosted by the conservative American Solutions and one hosted by the National Education… Read More
MINNEAPOLIS — Entrepreneur-turned-filmmaker Bob Compton kicked off an American Solutions panel on education by showing a 13-minute clip of “2 Million Minutes,” a documentary that… Read More
ST. PAUL — There is still not a lot of action on the floor of the convention hall, which is giving bloggers (stationed far above… Read More
Time magazine ran a story back in 2007 on “The Case for National Service.” The story described the positions of the candidates for president on… Read More
Under No Child Left Behind, thousands of public school students in the District are eligible to transfer out of their low-performing public school system into… Read More
The Washington Post calls out the D.C. government for its continued hostility towards the school choice movement: ANYONE LOOKING for a symbol of the contempt… Read More
Editorializing on school choice, the Wall Street Journal writes today: EdisonLearning, a private company that took over 20 of Philadelphia’s 45 lowest performing district schools… Read More
In today’s Washington Post, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings makes the case for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program that Congress almost shut down earlier this year:… Read More
Yesterday the Appropriations Committee approved funding for the 1,900 District of Columbia low income school children who receive scholarships to attend the school of their… Read More
Today the Washington Post continues its strong reporting on the left’s efforts to kill 1,900 scholarships for low-income students in the District of Columbia. The… Read More
Yesterday a House Appropriations subcommittee voted to save 1,900 scholarships for low-income D.C. children from teachers unions intent on killing school choice. The chairman of… Read More
Today a House Appropriations subcommittee will vote on the annual District of Columbia appropriations bill. If Del. Elanor Holmes Norton has her way, the majority… Read More
The Washington Post has a fine but saddening editorial today taking Del. Elanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) to task for her dishonest efforts to kill 1,900… Read More
