Congratulations to KIPP: Journey Academy for the school’s EPIC Silver Gain Award from New Leaders for New Schools.
If Florida Governor Rick Scott signs the state’s digital learning bill, as expected, students in grades K-5 then could bypass a brick-and-mortar school and directly enroll full-time in a virtual instruction program.
Choice Words has developed some legislative guidance for more informative inquiry on the parent trigger.
Congratulations to KIPP: Journey Academy on winning the EPIC Silver Gain Award!
Florida's McKay Scholarships for Students with Disabilities program should reestablish its status as a pioneer by embracing a reasonable form of results-based accountability
School leaders need help from policymakers to improve the availability of affordable space for teaching and learning, and to plug schools into revitalized neighborhoods.
A social sector solution to the "capacity" conundrum
Fordham has worked in Dayton – as a funder, charter-school authorizer, and charter-school advocate – to push for the creation and growth of high quality charter schools since 1998.
By limiting debate on a polarizing parent trigger bill, the Florida Legislature is only going to sow the same confusion that has frustrated Californians.
It’s almost become flippant for Democratic lawmakers to disparage a school voucher as “a war on public education,” but a look at the numbers shows the conflict is pretty one-sided.
The rejection of the White Hat applications will come as a surprise to many observers because ODE has rarely challenged large, not to mention politically well-connected, operators.
Regardless of rankings, Ohio policymakers should continue to seek improvements to Ohio’s charter school program.
A learning specialist with Noble Charter Schools responds to criticism of the organization's controversial discipline policies.
The results of a report show a need to further explore the right balance between parental choice and state standards, even if that discussion leaves many voucher proponents with a bad case of heartburn.
Ohio’s charter school community has been split into two camps since the inception of the state’s first charter law in 1997; purists vs. hawks.
White Hat Management has been the Goliath of Ohio’s charter school operators since its first schools opened in 1999. The company currently operates 33 schools in the Buckeye State.
Choice czar Adam Emerson recorded an interview with the Wall Street Journal on President Obama's proposed cuts to the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program.
Allowing local dollars to follow local students is an important first step in addressing unfair funding systems.
The president's new budget proposal quashes last year's compromise to resurrect the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program.
The struggles between the Catholic Church and the Obama Administration reveal the fault lines that surface when Washington tries to tinker with the complex machinery that administers our health, social services...and education.
Charters are the answer, not the enemy.
Break the ESEA stalemate
Tardiness and school construction are among the education issues keeping courts busy.
A lot of negative forces contributed to Chester Upland’s present circumstance, and it will take an equal or greater number of positive forces to turn it around. That should include a successful charter school.
Here's hoping that collaboration doesn’t co-opt educational diversity.
A new study of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship program should render a persistent critique of school vouchers and tax credit scholarships irrelevant.
With friends like these, the growing coalition of support for charter schools will have a harder time coalescing around a common purpose.
