Measuring up to the model: A ranking of state charter school laws
Regardless of rankings, Ohio policymakers should continue to seek improvements to Ohio’s charter school program.
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.
Expanding school choice isn't easy
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.
School choice, not business degrees, offers the best shot at improving the K-12 sector.
Are authorizers losing their nerve?
One could argue that 2011 was the year of “digital learning” in Ohio and across the nation. In September, the White House announced its “Digital Promise” campaign, while a number of states have been embracing initiatives and campaigns in this realm, aided and encouraged by national groups like the Digital Learning Council and the Foundation for Excellence in Education. Ohio’s biennial budget launched the Ohio Digital Learning Task Force and charged it with ensuring that the state’s “legislative environment is conducive to and supportive of the educators and digital innovators at the heart of this transformation.”
Parents, even those a step above poverty, are ready to exercise more control over their children's education.
Adam explains why charter school applications must be subjected to closer scrutiny.
Real reform must embrace choice—choice at the individual level.
As the recent ALEC report card on American K-12 education shows, it's been a brazen year for school reform.
As you are likely well aware, we are in the midst of School Choice Week, not only here in Ohio but nationwide. Numerous events have been going on all throughout the Buckeye State to help commemorate.
Catching up on the week's news.
It's worth looking back at the bipartisan roots of the school choice movement.
Ohio is unique in its ability to turn the best of charter school theory and practice on its head. The most recent example comes from an Ohio school district that set up a charter school to offload test scores of low-performing students while making money for the district.
Since the first charter school opened its doors in Minnesota in 1991, over 6,700 charter schools have set up shop in 40 states and DC. Unfortunately, not all of these schools have been successful and a number of them have since closed.