National School Choice Week: School Choice Means Options
It’s National School Choice Week, and school choice advocates across the country are coming together to promote educational opportunity for the nation’s children. But just… Read More
It’s National School Choice Week, and school choice advocates across the country are coming together to promote educational opportunity for the nation’s children. But just… Read More
Today marks the beginning of National School Choice Week, a time when school choice advocates across the nation will hold events to highlight effective educational… Read More
The first-ever National School Choice Week is underway! This week, January 23rd – 29th, school choice advocates from across the country will host events and… Read More
In the latest efforts to promote school choice for the nation’s children, Pennsylvania state Senators Anthony Williams (D–Philadelphia) and Jeffrey Piccola (R–Dauphin and York) have… Read More
Treating teachers like professionals, giving parents school choice, and using education dollars wisely: these three priorities frame the agenda of Students First, the newly established… Read More
A new study published by School Choice Wisconsin finds that students in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP)—the largest voucher program in the country with… Read More
Technically, the District of Columbia offers school choice. However, as a Washington Post article pointed out this weekend, there is a difference between school choice… Read More
As we enter a new year, education reformers will look back on 2010 as the year when education in the United States began to return… Read More
For Indiana families, 2011 is already promising to be an exciting year for educational opportunity. Governor Mitch Daniels recently told the Courier-Journal that he will… Read More
Lost in the framework agreement between the Obama Administration and congressional Republicans on extending tax relief is the future of Coverdell IRAs, savings accounts designed… Read More
The education establishment is pushing back against common-sense education reforms that have proved successful in Florida. Dr. Madhabi Chatterji, a professor at Columbia Teachers College,… Read More
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report last week on the fiscal accountability of D.C. Public Schools (DCPS). While their analysis suggests that DCPS… Read More
Education policy has often stumped or scared conservatives. It shouldn’t—we’ve long sided with children and parents against special interests—and especially not now. Federal education policy… Read More
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R–OH) made quite a statement on Monday when, on his first day back in office post-elections, he took time out… Read More
As a result of last week’s election, 2011 could be a watershed year for education reform and school choice. Many conservative candidates in the states… Read More
The results of Tuesday’s election sent a clear message about the direction voters want the federal government to take. The recently released 2010 Phi Delta… Read More
EducationNews
Tuesday’s election results aren’t the only outcomes this week likely to impact the future of school choice across the country. Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard… Read More
The documentary film Waiting for Superman follows five children and their families as they struggle to find educational opportunities. Fed up with the ineffective public… Read More
You know that guy who steps into a picture at the end of an event, making it look like he was there all along? This… Read More
Yesterday, Media Matters tried to refute a blog post in which I point out, among other things, that the impact of voucher use in the… Read More
EducationNews
Waiting for Superman has left moviegoers rightfully outraged at the state of America’s education system. It’s an accurate portrayal. In many of the nation’s largest… Read More
Watching Waiting for Superman last week left me exhausted. For too many years, education reformers have fought hard against the very injustices in the education… Read More
NBC News is on Day Two of its week-long series Education Nation. You cannot turn on any of the NBC family of networks (MSNBC, CNBC,… Read More
It should anger black Americans that, for decades, government at all levels has denied black parents and their children the opportunity to pursue a quality… Read More
This morning on the Today Show, host Matt Lauer sat down with President Obama to discuss his Administration’s policies on school reform. Toward the end… Read More
National attention has been focused on education reform at unheard-of levels in the last weeks, with the release of the new documentary “Waiting for Superman”… Read More
On Tuesday, students at Julia R. Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School in Philadelphia kicked-off the new school year with a speech from President Obama. Students… Read More
EducationNews
Students and teachers at Julia R. Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School began the school year with the ultimate back-to-school pep rally on Tuesday. President Obama… Read More
The Los Angeles Unified School District ( LAUSD ) is in a bind. The Tuesday after Labor Day is usually when school starts for schoolchildren… Read More
Pennsylvania residents in this year’s gubernatorial race will be casting their votes for school choice regardless of their political affiliation. In Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal,… Read More