Imagine, for a moment, a policy that allows learning-disabled students to take their share of federal IDEA funds to the public or private schools of their choice. It’s outlandish to suppose that we would discontinue the use of state assessments given to most of these students. But that’s the reality in Florida.
The growth in capital available to schools from private investors is an underrated success story for the charter movement.
What Harlem Village Academy and Finland have in common
Columbus Collegiate Academy (CCA) opened in 2008, and it has now launched the newly-formed United Schools Network, a nonprofit charter management organization (CMO).
Guest blogger Darrell Allison, president of Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina, argues for a range of quality education models.
Is universal school choice necessary to encourage innovative models of private education?
Columbus Collegiate Academy (CCA) opened in 2008, and it has now launched the newly-formed United Schools Network, a nonprofit charter management organization (CMO).
The Southern Regional Education Board's call for a fair system of funding for charters is an encouraging sign.
Competitive effects need real competition. Go figure!
Yet another NEPC straw man
Would unionized charter schools be good for students?
Drop-out recovery charter schools annually serve about 20 percent of Ohio’s charter students but have never been held accountable for the performance of their students.
Closing or limiting charter options will only further limit the options available to urban parents who desperately crave better choices for their children.
Rick Hess is right: Suburbanites aren’t going to willingly erode the quality of their schools and the value of their homes. The question for the school choice movement is whether we should take such realities as a given.
Ember Reichgott Junge: Present at the revolution
Louisiana’s top-rated school district recently reversed its decision to participate in the state’s new school voucher program. Why? Once the superintendent announced the district’s intent to “make a difference” for children coming from low-rated schools, his community told him to back off.
Unionized charter schools may make good sense for the unions themselves, but they would be a set-back for school improvement efforts in the Buckeye State.
Drop-out recovery charter schools annually serve about 20 percent of Ohio’s 100,000 charter students but have never been held accountable for the performance of their students
The Connecticut General Assembly wisely tabled an aberrant lottery scheme for charter schools when it passed a sweeping education reform bill, but lawmakers now want to spend state resources investigating the "feasibility" of this bad idea.
A free market for schools, not so much for authorizers
It is in the hope of stemming the loss of families and children that the mayor has proposed his bold school reform plan that seeks to turn the city’s educational fortunes around.
It is in the hope of stemming the loss of families and children that the mayor has proposed his bold school reform plan that seeks to turn the city’s educational fortunes around.
Chris Christie and Cory Booker may have been the headliners at a school choice policy summit last week, but it was a largely unknown corporate representative who provided some sobering perspective.
There is a student whose needs often go unmet by the schoolhouse and the statehouse—high-achieving, but not quite gifted, one who receives less attention from principals and policymakers focused on bringing the bottom up to proficiency.
