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School Finance, Teachers & School Leaders
(No) Money in the Bank: Which Retirement Systems Penalize New Teachers?
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.
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2017 National School Choice Poll
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.
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The flush with cash edition
On this week's podcast, Mike Petrilli, Alyssa Schwenk, and Brandon Wright discuss President Trump’s inauguration speech and what he said about education and globalization. During the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines how grading systems affect student effort.
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A New Federal Push on Private School Choice? Three Options to Consider
One of the few education promises President-elect Trump made on the campaign trail was to launch a major new federal initiative on school choice. By nominating choice advocate Betsy DeVos to be his secretary of education, he indicated that he was serious about it.
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Event recap: How could the feds push private school choice?
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
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How Obama's K–12 schooling drove his education policy—and may also shape his retirement
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.
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DeVos, the day after
On this week's podcast, special guest Andy Smarick, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, joins Mike Petrilli and Alyssa Schwenk to discuss Betsy DeVos’s confirmation hearing and what the feds might do to promote school choice. During the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines the effects of New Orleans school reforms on school expenditures.
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Ohio's charter reforms are on the right track
By Aaron Churchill, Jamie Davies O’Leary, and Chad L. Aldis
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Intentionally Diverse Charter Schools: A Toolkit for Charter School Leaders
More than sixty years after Brown v. Board, traditional district schools are more often than not still havens of homogeneity.
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A new year brings a new chance for district-charter collaboration
Peter Cunningham recently called district-charter collaboration the “great unfilled promise” of school choice.
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What’s behind Ohio’s drop in the national Quality Counts ranking?
Education Week just issued its twenty-first “Quality Counts” report card for states.
