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#872: The religious charter school debate, with Kathleen Porter-Magee

Kathleen Porter-Magee Michael J. Petrilli Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
5.31.2023
 

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Kathleen Porter-Magee of Partnership Schools—a network of Catholic schools in New York City and Cleveland—joins Mike Petrilli to discuss the debate over religious charter schools. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber discusses a Virginia study that compares labor market outcomes between community college students from higher and lower socioeconomic backgrounds.

Recommended content:

  • “3 reasons why religious charter schools should give us pause” —Kathleen Porter Magee
  • “Proposal for first religious charter school in US shot down by Oklahoma education board” —USA Today
  • “Supreme Court opens a path to religious charter schools: But the trail ahead holds twists and turns” —Education Next
  • The study that Amber reviewed on the Research Minute: Brian Heseung Kim et al., Crossing the Finish Line but Losing the Race? Socioeconomic Inequalities in the Labor Market Trajectories of Community College Graduates , Education Finance & Policy (April 2023)

Feedback Welcome:

Have ideas for improving our podcast? Send them to Jeanette Luna at [email protected].

Policy Priority:
Quality Choices
School Choice
Topics:
Charter Schools
Governance
Private School Choice

Kathleen Porter-Magee is managing partner of Leadership Roundtable. To read more, visit their Substack blog, Renewal.

President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute

Michael J. Petrilli is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, executive editor of Education Next, editor in chief of the Education Gadfly Weekly, host of the…

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Amber Northern is senior vice president for research at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where she supervises the Institute’s robust research portfolio and…

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