Closing or limiting charter options will only further limit the options available to urban parents who desperately crave better choices for their children.
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.
Ember Reichgott Junge: Present at the revolution
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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 policy is education policy
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
David Brooks, E.D. Hirsch, and why the status quo persists
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.
