Morning Bell: Do You Wish You Could Choose Your Child’s Teacher?
Back-to-school season can be emotional for parents. As Johnny enters a new grade level, it’s one more reminder that not too many Septembers from now… Read More
Back-to-school season can be emotional for parents. As Johnny enters a new grade level, it’s one more reminder that not too many Septembers from now… Read More
Hurricane Katrina destroyed more than just buildings. Left with scarce resources and personnel, local government in New Orleans became weak and ineffective in the aftermath… Read More
Our friends at ReasonTV have put out a great new video highlighting the strides that have been made towards school choice in New Orleans following… Read More
What happens when parents have the opportunity to exercise choice and send their children to private schools? Children get an education that best meets their… Read More
Tucker Carlson takes it to the teachers unions and the administration for phasing-out the highly successful and popular D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. “D.C. Public Schools… Read More
Everyone has speculated about why LeBron James chose Florida as his next home court. Maybe it was the lower tax rate, perhaps the sunny beaches,… Read More
A new study released this week by the Department of Education’s Institute for Education Sciences found that participation in the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program “raised… Read More
School choice efforts took a substantial step forward yesterday when Oklahoma’s Democratic Governor Brad Henry signed into law the Lindsey Nicole Henry Scholarships for Students… Read More
Earlier this week Politico‘s Ben Smith reported on how tough economic times are leading politicians from both parties to start attacking government unions. Smith writes:… Read More
Tomorrow, a new documentary, The Lottery, will premier in Washington, DC. The film is based on the Harlem charter school lottery: a luck-of-the-draw process to… Read More
The Obama administration’s Race to the Top program presents states with a choice: adopt national standards for academic performance, or refuse desperately-needed federal dollars. The… Read More
Last month, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) gave the keynote address to the American Federation for Children Policy Summit in Washington, DC. You can… Read More
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For just the second time in its history, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear a case on school choice. The high court… Read More
In a disappointing turn of events, the Illinois House has rejected a school voucher bill that would have enabled up to 30,000 children to escape… Read More
The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) is a comprehensive school choice program that serves some of the lowest performing students in the nation. Now two… Read More
This fall, fewer than half of all public school students in Kansas City, Missouri will return to their former classrooms. Due to budget constraints and… Read More
School choice is on the march in Illinois. And if the Rev. Senator James Meeks (D-15) has his way, 22,000 children stand to gain a… Read More
Ted Ginn Sr., father of NFL wide receiver Ted Ginn Jr., has coached some of the best college and professional talent in the NFL and… Read More
The decline of public education stands out as a subject ripe for the lens of a documentary filmmaker. In Waiting for Superman, to be released… Read More
Opponents of school choice worry that public schools will suffer when competition is introduced. They cite the diversion of money away from public schools and… Read More
Congress and the Obama administration seem to want to ignore the issue of school choice and let the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program die of neglect…. Read More
For sports enthusiasts, March is an exciting month. The excitement of the NCAA Tournament keeps even the casual fan glued to the edge of their… Read More
President Obama is a school choice success story, and 38 percent of those in Congress have sent a child to a private school. So why… Read More
The recently released 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading results for grades 4 and 8 suggest that the sweeping education reforms implemented in… Read More
Last week the leftist majorities in Congress again rejected a bi-partisan attempt to save the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program from annihilation thanks to pressure from… Read More
An eighth-grader named Shaketa is on the move. She’s representing thousands of her peers in the nation’s capital in the effort to save D.C. Opportunity… Read More
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, while serving as Chicago Public Schools chief, maintained a list of special requests from politically connected individuals for children to attend… Read More
Amid the partisan bickering and procedural conundrums of the health care bill last week, a small group of senators from both sides of the aisle… Read More
Certainly one of the most unfortunate provisions in the new Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) reauthorization “blueprint” is the elimination of school choice and… Read More
Last night, the Senate considered an amendment by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) to reauthorize the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. The amendment failed 42 – 55…. Read More
