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.
Guest blogger Rebecca Sibilia, director of fiscal strategy at StudentsFirst, explains how Last-in, First-Out policies hurt students by increasing the number of teachers laid off when budgets are cut.
Here’s hoping “next generation” also means “better”
Test scores plummeted on Florida’s eighth-grade writing test, prompting education officials to lower the standard for passing and opponents to crow about the fu
Ember Reichgott Junge: Present at the revolution
Don’t kick the pension can down the road
Guest blogger Michelle Rhee writes that, too often, decisions are made and policies are set based on the interests of adults in the system rather than student needs.
Yesterday, Senate Bill 355, otherwise known as “The Cleveland Plan,” was under the microscope again.
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.
Congratulations to Columbus Alternative, Centennial, Stivers, and DECA on your awards.
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
States will need to think hard about whether they can live with the status quo—and whether the NGSS offers a viable alternative.
A clique of conservative groups is pushing the message that tomorrow’s ALEC vote is part of a “growing movement” against federal intrusion vis-à-vis the Common Core standards. Problem is, ALEC is already on record against federal intrusion into education vis-à-vis the CCSS.
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
This week, Tennessee capped the number of foreign workers on visas that charter schools in the Volunteer State can hire.
Illinois lawmakers should resist the urge to delay fixing retirement benefits, instead passing radical reform of the pension system and providing teachers with a forward-thinking retirement plan.
It’s become popular in many education circles to decry “teaching to the test,” but new research provides one more reason why these independent checks on what students have actually learned are a critical element of an effort to close America’s achievement gap.
Guest blogger Anne L. Bryant, executive director of the National School Boards Association, writes that granting districts greater autonomy is the key to improving education governance.
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.
