A welcome plea for fair funding
Adam EmersonThe Southern Regional Education Board's call for a fair system of funding for charters is an encouraging sign.
A Mission to Serve: How Public Charter Schools Are Designed to Meet the Diverse Demands of Our Communities <em>and</em> Diverse Charter Schools: Can Racial and Socioeconomic Integration Promote Better Outcomes for Students?
Lisa GibesTwo timely takes on a tricky topic
Heterogeneous Competitive Effects of Charter Schools in Milwaukee
Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.Competitive effects need real competition. Go figure!
Spending by the Major Charter Management Organizations: Comparing Charter School and Local Public District Financial Resources in New York, Ohio, and Texas
Chris TessoneYet another NEPC straw man
Why unionized charters would be a setback for Ohio’s school improvement efforts
Terry RyanWould unionized charter schools be good for students?
Accountability and perspective needed for drop-out recovery charters
Aaron ChurchillDrop-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.
Charter and catholic schools can coexist
Kathleen Porter-MageeClosing or limiting charter options will only further limit the options available to urban parents who desperately crave better choices for their children.
Failure is (and must be) an option
Kathleen Porter-MageeWhat Common Core supporters can learn from KIPP
Should suburban fears drive school choice policy?
Adam EmersonRick 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.
Future Shock: Early Common Core implementation lessons from Ohio
With the 2014-15 Common-Core transition looming, we wondered: How are Ohio’s educators preparing themselves for this big change? Who is doing this work and what can other schools and districts learn from the early adopters? What are lessons, hopes, and fears facing those on the frontlines who have to lead Ohio’s embrace of significantly more rigorous academic standards?
Zero Chance of Passage: The Pioneering Charter School Story
Lisa GibesEmber Reichgott Junge: Present at the revolution
Pressing against the fence of a top-flight school district
Adam EmersonLouisiana’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.
Why unionized charters would be a setback for Ohio’s school improvement efforts
Terry RyanUnionized 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.
Accountability and perspective needed for drop-out recovery charters
Aaron ChurchillDrop-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
Tabling a bad idea for Connecticut charters
Adam EmersonThe 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.
The State of the NYC Charter School Sector
Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.Data, data everywhere
Mayor Jackson's reasonable request of Ohio's charter community
Terry RyanA free market for schools, not so much for authorizers
Mayor Jackson’s reasonable request of Ohio’s charter community
Terry RyanIt 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.
Mayor Jackson’s reasonable request of Ohio’s charter community
Terry RyanIt 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.
Corporate support for school choice doesn’t come without tension
Adam EmersonChris 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.
Taking care of Florida's high flyers
Adam EmersonThere 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.
School choice skirmishes in Democratic primaries
Adam EmersonIt’s primary season in statehouses nationwide, and that means that teachers unions will pit Democrat against Democrat by using the support of school vouchers as a wedge.
Housing Costs, Zoning, and Access to High-Scoring Schools
Adam EmersonHousing policy is education policy
Philadelphia Catholic schools pledge to pull back the curtain
Adam EmersonThe Philadelphia school district’s plan to lift itself out of financial and academic distress may have overshadowed a profound development this week for Catholic education in the City of Brotherly Love.
Upending school choice in the Nutmeg State
Adam EmersonThe opt-out charter school lottery proposed in Connecticut would only discourage effective charter applicants who will see a burdensome and costly mandate getting in the way of their mission.
Housing policy is education policy
Adam EmersonA new Brookings report argues that zoning regulations are segregating cities by income and race and leaving quality schools available to mostly higher income families.