Ohio’s ESSA plan: Identifying low-performing schools
One of the hallmarks of school accountability is the identification of and intervention in persistently low-preforming schools.
One of the hallmarks of school accountability is the identification of and intervention in persistently low-preforming schools.
Parents make choices about their child’s schooling based on a variety of factors: location, safety, convenience, academics, extracurriculars, support services, and more. Many families choose their school by moving to the neighborhood of their preference, thus exercising “choice” when making homeownership decisions.
By Thomas W. Carroll
By Dara Zeehandelaar, Ph.D. and Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
Tomorrow marks the end of National School Choice Week 2017.
A new teacher’s pension is supposed to be a perk. The truth is that for the majority of the nation’s new teachers, what they can anticipate in retirement benefits will be worth less than what they contributed to the system while they were in the classroom, even if they stay for decades.
The American Federation for Children (AFC) recently released its third annual poll on school choice. The national poll surveyed just over 1,000 likely November 2018 voters early this January via phone calls.
By Michael J. Petrilli
When President Donald Trump stopped by a Cleveland charter school in September, he promised to “establish the national goal of providing school choice to every American child living in poverty.” Although he
As a two-term president and the de facto leader of the free world, Barack Obama has represented with his tenure a triumphant opus to the opportunity that makes the American experiment possible.
By Aaron Churchill, Jamie Davies O’Leary, and Chad L. Aldis
By Rachel Campos-Duffy and Jason Crye
More than sixty years after Brown v. Board, traditional district schools are more often than not still havens of homogeneity.
Peter Cunningham recently called district-charter collaboration the “great unfilled promise” of school choice.