Mayor Jackson's reasonable request of Ohio's charter community

A free market for schools, not so much for authorizers

Mayor Jackson’s reasonable request of Ohio’s charter community

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.

Mayor Jackson’s reasonable request of Ohio’s charter community

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.

Corporate support for school choice doesn’t come without tension

Chris 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

There 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

It’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

Housing policy is education policy

Radical changes in Philadelphia

The City of Brotherly Love goes big

Philadelphia Catholic schools pledge to pull back the curtain

The 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

The 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

A new Brookings report argues that zoning regulations are segregating cities by income and race and leaving quality schools available to mostly higher income families.

More charter schools could soon land a place on the closure list

Today we continue our analysis of the impact of Governor Kasich’s mid-biennium education policy proposals with a look at how it would change the state’s charter school academic death penalty.  (See our previous analyses of how schools

"Artificially manipulating" the school choice narrative

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer's explanation of her decision to veto an expansion of the state's publicly funded savings account to help more disadvantaged students pay for private education rings hollow.

Financing small-town schools

Rural and small-town schools face unique challenges. We could use more creative programs like the USDA's Community Facilities lending initiative for easing the burden of inadequate facilities, helping schools develop realistic enrollment projections and obtain affordable space.

Voucher accountability in the Pelican State

Keeping private school choice honest

Understanding School Shoppers in Detroit

Demand-side economics

The Tartans: The story of an Appalachian charter school in Ohio

It takes a village

Getting good ideas to the finish line: choice, political will, and a coxswain

David Brooks, E.D. Hirsch, and why the status quo persists

The Tartans: The story of an Appalachian charter school in Ohio

School shopping in the Motor City

An urban wasteland in the industrial Midwest shows how a portfolio approach to public education can inspire even the most disadvantaged families to “shop” for the right school.

Big news in the Bayou State

Passing a set of historic reform bills last week, the Louisiana legislature handed Gov. Bobby Jindal and his new education chief, John White, the keys to reform city.

U.S. Education Reform and National Security

Joel Klein and Condi Rice make the link

Learning from Charter School Management Organizations: Strategies for Student Behavior and Teacher Coaching

Schools everywhere: Steal these ideas!

Tebow mania’s Frankenstein

‘bow down

Making a clean sweep from the status quo

Mopping up the competition

Fear and loathing, from the school board to the statehouse

The mainstream resistance to school choice is increasingly characterizing the education reform debate as students versus profits.

Placing boundaries on what is boundless

The Evergreen Education Group gives us more evidence that districts may be unwilling to give up their authority over online learning easily.

Strange political bedfellows coming together around Cleveland’s school-reform efforts

As bold as Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's plan is, even more audacious is the political coalition that seems to be coalescing around it.

Accountability and voucher politics in the Pelican State

Governor Bobby Jindal’s school voucher proposal for Louisiana has been dragged into the familiar politics of parental choice.

A nation at risk redux

Joel Klein and Condi Rice step up for school choice