WHAT WE’RE READING
“Soon, half of all American schoolkids will be able to apply for state money to finance a private education, and many states will offer the scholarships even to families with high incomes,” write Bianca Vázquez Toness and Sharon Lurye. Yet many students from low-income families and those with disabilities are left behind by private school choice programs in their current iteration.
EXTRA CREDIT:
Jason Riley, “When Schools Try to Cover Up Their Failures”
Kaya Henderson, “To Save Our Schools, Trust Young People”
Rick Hess and Derek Black, “How State Courts Are Quietly Shaping U.S. Education”
Dr. Megan Schopp, “The Dirt Road to a Better Education Policy”
Sharif El-Mekki, “We Can’t Give Up on Teacher Diversity”
Matt Gandal, “Graduation Season Is Here. Is The High School Diploma Stuck In The Past?”
Editor's note: This was first published on Mike Petrilli's Substack, SCHOOLED, a twice-weekly free Substack and email newsletter restarting the education-reform conversation.
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