EdChoice vouchers have helped, not hurt, traditional public schools
Try saying it with us: “Choice and competition are good.” Don’t take our word alone. On the left, President Joe Biden said:
Try saying it with us: “Choice and competition are good.” Don’t take our word alone. On the left, President Joe Biden said:
Sylvia Allegretto and her colleagues at the union-backed Economic Policy Institute (EPI) have been arguing for over eighteen years that teachers are underpaid. Her latest in a long line of reports on the topic was published in August and follows the same methodology as all previous versions.
Thanks to inflation and supply chain issues, back-to-school shopping was an especially tight squeeze for many families this year. But parents aren’t the only ones shouldering the financial burden. Teachers are, too.
Persistent school choice critic Steve Dyer recently posted a “takedown” of Fordham’s latest school choice policy recommendations.
Last Tuesday, Ohioans finally voted in primaries for state representative and (if applicable) state senator after the traditional spring primary was delayed due to redistricting issues.
Arizona, long one of the nation’s trailblazers in the school-choice movement, recently expanded its education savings account (ESA) program to ensure that all students—regardless of income or where they attend
Politicians are notorious for handing out subsidies for certain projects and sectors
There’s a growing body of <
The education world was abuzz last Tuesday as the U.S. Supreme Court released its opinion in Carson v. Makin.
Successful school choice requires that parents have ample access to high-quality information.
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April is drawing to a close, and that (thankfully) means the end of tax season.
Due to massive financial woes, Ohio suspended cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) for retired teachers in July 2017.
Earlier this year, the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding filed a lawsuit aimed at eliminating the state’s EdChoice Scholarship Program
Earlier this year, a coalition of traditional public school districts filed a lawsuit that they hope will spell the end of EdChoice,
Over the past two decades, student enrollment has gradually declined across Ohio, reflecting demographic changes and out-migration that have reduced the overall childhood population
It’s an all-voucher issue of the Bites today. And it’s gonna get crazy. First up, I don’t know what an “opinion reporter” is, but the independent news outlet run by students at the University of Cincinnati has one of those.
For decades, analysts have observed large achievement gaps between low-income children and their peers, disparities that have only widened due to Covid.
In the early days of January, a coalition of traditional public school districts filed a lawsuit aimed at striking down
If you’re at all involved in Ohio education policy, you’ve heard about the anti-voucher lawsuit that was recently filed by the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding.
Last week, five school districts filed a lawsuit in the Franklin County courts that attempts to strike down EdChoice, Ohio’s private scholarship program that serves roughly 50,000 school children, many of whom are among the need
Exporting opposition
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