How the parent trigger’s biggest advocate harms his own cause
Ben Austin's flawed stance on the role that for-profit educators might play in school-turnaround efforts
Ben Austin's flawed stance on the role that for-profit educators might play in school-turnaround efforts
Innovation’s next frontier: Getting to scale
Arguing otherwise is, at best, disingenuous
As recent events in Los Angeles and New Hampshire show, so long as there are laws that limit charter authorization to one public body, promising charter applicants risk being held hostage to the whims of a political board
KIPP schools shine even under rigorous evaluation
The demise of the first teacher union at a Massachusetts charter school raises questions about whether unions and charters are ever a good fit
The case for overhauling charter authorizing in the Sunshine State
L.A.’s irresponsible and illegal charter moratorium
While the education show goes on in Chicago, Ohio's workhorses plow ahead
A plea for common sense
Where education reform has lost its way
CTU President Karen Lewis took aim at the city’s charter schools, and it’s not surprising.
NEPC misses the mark in its review of Matt Chingos and Paul Peterson's research
Los Angeles charter-school advocates are questioning the legality of a proposed moratoriu
Voucher-movement leaders have found purpose in the notion that parents know what is best for their children. The charter movement can learn from that, and the Chicago strike has made that lesson relevant.
Students create and produce their own vision of education
A brief history lesson
It may not be the Catholic school system that is in trouble, but the Church.
Catnip for the school-choice proponent
A rising school-choice tide for charters and vouchers alike
The National PTA shakes up its stance on charter authorizing
What the latest Cato study gets right...and wrong
A new study shows that black students who won a school-voucher lottery in New York a generation ago were more likely to attend college than students who didn’t win.
The nation’s oldest parochial school system starts fresh
Philadelphia was home to the nation’s first diocesan Catholic school system. Now it has the first Catholic school system run by a foundation of lay people.
An attorney general's audacious move may highlight the desperate need for an emergency manager.
What the feds can and should do